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August 1983

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

This issue is sold out.

Sharon Dunn
Celia Gilbert
Philip Appleman
Bruce Berger
Randy Blasing

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Table of Contents

Stephen Dobyns
- General Matthei Drives Home through Santiago
- Between Hamburg and Buenos Aires
Joyce Carol Oates
Timothy Steele
- The Chorus
- Chanson Philosophique
Philip Appleman
- Anniversary
- The Trickle-down Theory of Happiness
Jack Butler
- One Reason for Stars
Aleda Shirley
- The Feel of Not to Feel It
- One of a Number of Good Intentions
Randy Blasing
Bruce Berger
- Stout Brahms
- Ambition
Linda Pastan
- Lullaby for 17
- The Sonoran Desert, January
Frederick Turner
- Dumbarton Oaks
- The Agape

Comment

Ernst Pöppel and Frederick Turner
- The Neural Lyre: Poetic Meter, the Brain, and Time

Contributors
- - Jack Butler
  - Aleda Shirley
  - Randy Blasing
  - Bruce Berger
- - Linda Pastan
  - Frederick Turner
  - Ernst Pöppel