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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1983

October 1983

 
  • Marvin Bell
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Madeline De Frees
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Dana Gioia
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From this Issue

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Nude Standing Alone in the Forest: A Study of Place

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My Confessional Sestina

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Draft Age

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Table of Contents

  • Pattiann Rogers
    • Nude Standing Alone in the Forest: A Study of Place
    • The Body as Window
    • Statement Preliminary to the Invention of Solace
    • The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle
  • Dana Gioia
    • My Confessional Sestina
    • The Sunday News
    • The Country Wife
    • Thanks for Remembering Us
    • Cuckoos
  • Marvin Bell
    • Draft Age
    • Landscape with Open Spaces
    • When I Run
  • Donald Hall
    • At Eagle Pond
  • Jonathan Holden
    • Full Moon, Rising
    • Scraping the House
  • Tom Sleigh
    • The Very End
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • The Playground
    • My Daughter
  • Brendan Galvin
    • Whirl Is King
    • Workout
    • Black Bear in October
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  • Peter Stitt
    • Imagination in the Ascendant
    • The Wheel, by Wendell Berry
    • Magpie on the Gallows, by Madeline DeFrees
    • Candles in Babylon, by Denise Levertov
    • Northbook, by Frederick Morgan
    • Letters from a Father and Other Poems, by Mona Van Duyn
    • Austerities, by Charles Simic
    • The Balthus Poems, by Stephen Dobyns
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  • Marvin Bell
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Dana Gioia
  • Donald Hall
  • Jonathan Holden
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Tom Sleigh
  • Elizabeth Spires
  • Peter Stitt
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