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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1984

January 1984

 
  • Carl Dennis
  • Colleen Devlin
  • Alice Fulton
  • Herbert Morris
  • Mary Oliver
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Between Words

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Interrogation

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Fear of the Dark

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Table of Contents

  • Gary Soto
    • Between Words
    • When We Wake
    • Looking around, Believing
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • Interrogation
    • Seventy-Fourth Birthday
    • Translating the Latin
  • Carl Dennis
    • Fear of the Dark
    • The Dream of Fair Women
    • On the Way to School
  • Vern Rutsala
    • Lela and Others
    • Uncle
  • Alice Fulton
    • My Second Marriage to My First Husband
    • Babies
    • Aviation
    • Traveling Light
  • Winston Weathers
    • Epitaph for the Children Drowned in the River
  • Colleen Devlin
    • The Toast
  • Mary Oliver
    • The Moths
    • The Son
  • Herbert Morris
    • Circus
Comment
  • William H. Pritchard
    • Poetry Chronicle
    • Vital Provisions, by Reynolds Price
    • Heart of the Garfish, by Kathy Callaway
    • Running on Empty, by Robert Phillips
    • The Students of Snow, by Jane Flanders
    • Peru, by Herbert Morris
    • Whomp and Moonshiver, by Thomas Whitbread [Richard Wilbur]
    • [Brad Leithauser]
Contents
  • William H. Pritchard
    • The Hawk's Dream and Other Poems, by Donald Everett Axinn
    • One Long Poem, by William Harmon
    • PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, by Linda Pastan
    • New and Selected Poems, by Tony Connor
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Carl Dennis
  • Colleen Devlin
  • Alice Fulton
  • Herbert Morris
  • Mary Oliver
  • William H. Pritchard
  • Vern Rutsala
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Gary Soto
  • Winston Weathers
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