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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1985

August 1985

 
  • Philip Appleman
  • Paul Breslin
  • Trent Busch
  • Michael Collier
  • Robert Dana
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Ignorance

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The Next Poem

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The Greenhouse Effect

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Dunn
    • Ignorance
    • Saints
    • Portrait
  • Dana Gioia
    • The Next Poem
    • Cruising with the Beachboys
    • The End
  • Carl Dennis
    • The Greenhouse Effect
  • Baron Wormser
    • In a Cab
    • Lament upon the Closing of the Northern Conservatory in Bangor, Maine
    • Married Sex
    • An Advent of Paganism
  • Michael Collier
    • Boats near Luxor
    • Tonight
  • Walter McDonald
    • The Middle Years
    • Whatever It Takes
    • Buzzing in a Biplane
  • Sharon Olds
    • The Cast
    • The Planned Child
  • Philip Appleman
    • Are You Saved?
  • Robert Morgan
    • School Ground
    • Rockpile
    • Nail Bag
    • Vietnam War Memorial
Triumphs
  • Jim Elledge
    • Triumphs
    • To Hold in My Hand: Selected Poems, 1955-1983, by Hilda Morley
    • Leaving the Door Open, by David Ignatow
    • Black Dog, Red Dog, by Stephen Dobyns
    • Willingly, by Tess Gallagher
    • Rejoicings: Poems 1966-1972 andParadise Poems, by Gerald Stern
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  • Philip Appleman
  • Michael Collier
  • Carl Dennis
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Jim Elledge
  • Dana Gioia
  • Walter McDonald
  • Robert Morgan
  • Sharon Olds
  • Baron Wormser
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