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November 1985

 
  • Peter Balakian
  • Neal Bowers
  • Brooks Haxton
  • Lawrence Joseph
  • Carolyn Kizer
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The Valley of the Fallen

By Carolyn Kizer
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The Shawl

By Jeanne Murray Walker
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The Oriental Rug

By Peter Balakian
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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • The Valley of the Fallen
    • Ingathering
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
    • The Shawl
  • Peter Balakian
    • The Oriental Rug
  • Lawrence Joseph
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Any and All
    • I Pay the Price
  • Gary Soto
    • Sorrow in French
    • Small Town with One Road
    • That Girl
  • Reynolds Price
    • Lighthouse, Mosquito Inlet
    • Hawk Hill
    • Rincn
  • Neal Bowers
    • Living the Parable
    • Terminal
Brief Reviews
  • Grace Schulman
    • Brief Reviews
    • YIN: New Poems, by Carolyn Kizer
    • Henry Purcell in Japan, by Mary Jo Salter
    • Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander
    • Raw Heaven, by Molly Peacock
    • Taking to Water, by Roberta Spear
    • Hotel Fiesta, by Lynn Emanuel
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Peter Balakian
  • Neal Bowers
  • Lawrence Joseph
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Reynolds Price
  • Grace Schulman
  • Gary Soto
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
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