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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1983

November 1983

 
  • Dave Etter
  • Jorie Graham
  • Marie Howe
  • Ted Kooser
  • Philip Levine
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The Dream

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The Urine Specimen

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Late Afternoon

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Table of Contents

For the Country
  • Philip Levine
    • The Dream
  • Ted Kooser
    • The Urine Specimen
    • The Mouse
    • The Sigh
    • A Birthday Card
    • The Witness
  • Linda McCarriston
    • Late Afternoon
    • Aubade: November
  • Marie Howe
    • The Fourth Visit
    • What Belongs to Us
    • What the Angels Left
  • Reynolds Price
    • Ambrosia
  • Jorie Graham
    • Expecting
    • Mirror Prayer
Comment
  • Vernon Shetley
    • This World and the Other
    • From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976 and The Changing Light at Sandover, by James Merrill
    • James Merrill: Essays in Criticism (Ed. by David Lehman and Charles Berger)
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jorie Graham
  • Marie Howe
  • Ted Kooser
  • Philip Levine
  • Linda McCarriston
  • Reynolds Price
  • Vernon Shetley
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