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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1983

August 1983

 
  • Sharon Dunn
  • Celia Gilbert
  • Philip Appleman
  • Bruce Berger
  • Randy Blasing
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General Matthei Drives Home through Santiago

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Night

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The Chorus

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Dobyns
    • General Matthei Drives Home through Santiago
    • Between Hamburg and Buenos Aires
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    • Night
    • Ancient Snapshots
    • Love Anecdote
  • Timothy Steele
    • The Chorus
    • Chanson Philosophique
  • Philip Appleman
    • Anniversary
    • The Trickle-down Theory of Happiness
  • Randy Blasing
    • Over Drinks
    • Gilgamesh Visits Ephesus
    • Ramazan at New Phocaea
  • Linda Pastan
    • Lullaby for 17
    • The Sonoran Desert, January
Comment
  • Frederick Turner
    • The Neural Lyre: Poetic Meter, the Brain, and Time
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Appleman
  • Randy Blasing
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Linda Pastan
  • Timothy Steele
  • Frederick Turner
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