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December 1984

 
  • Joan Aleshire
  • Dick Allen
  • David Bottoms
  • Erica Funkhouser
  • Robert Gibb
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Blues for December 21st

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Ice

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Black Ice

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Table of Contents

  • Robert Gibb
    • Blues for December 21st
    • Coming into the Body
    • Lines in a Slow Thaw
  • David Bottoms
    • Ice
  • Pamela Uschuk
    • Black Ice
    • After Reading Louise Bogan's Journals
  • Erica Funkhouser
    • Cryogenics
  • Martin McGovern
    • Christmas, Colorado
  • John Wilson
    • Southern California Snow
  • Kay A. Murphy
    • Christmas Card
  • Robert Morgan
    • Oranges
  • Dick Allen
    • The Poet at Eighteen
  • Sue Owen
    • The White Rabbit
  • Joan Aleshire
    • Perpetual Motion
    • Persephone
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • Angel
  • David St. John
    • No Heaven
  • J. P. White
    • The Arctic Balloonists Talk to the Ones They Left Behind
  • Reg Saner
    • Guidelines
Short Reviews
  • Paul Breslin
    • Short Reviews
    • The Sacrifice, by Frank Bidart
    • The Best Hour of the Night, by Louis Simpson
    • Characters from Proust, by Wallace Fowlie
    • Continuing Conclusions: New Poems and Translations, by Richmond Lattimore
    • Poems from Oby, by George MacBeth
    • One-Legged on Ice, by Dannie Abse
    • Opening the Hand, by W. S. Merwin
    • The Water Inside the Water, by Susan Mitchell
    • Summer Celestial, by Stanley Plumly
    • Powers of Thirteen, by John Hollander
    • Midsummer, by Derek Walcott
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  • Joan Aleshire
  • Dick Allen
  • David Bottoms
  • Paul Breslin
  • Erica Funkhouser
  • Robert Gibb
  • Martin McGovern
  • Robert Morgan
  • Kay A. Murphy
  • Sue Owen
  • Reg Saner
  • Elizabeth Spires
  • David St. John
  • Pamela Uschuk
  • J. P. White
  • John Wilson
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