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April 1986

 
  • Wendy Barker
  • Charles Baxter
  • Maria Flook
  • Gail Mazur
  • James McKean
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The Astronomer's Apprentice

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Spring Planting

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Next to Tut

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Table of Contents

  • David Wagoner
    • The Astronomer's Apprentice
    • For a Third Anniversary
    • Ode to Twelve Yards of Unscreened Fill Dirt
  • Gail Mazur
    • Spring Planting
  • Jon Veinberg
    • Next to Tut
    • Martha
    • Sparrows as Ghosts
  • Cathy Song
    • The Window and the Field
    • The Age of Reptiles
    • Litany
    • The Tree House
  • Maria Flook
    • The Sapling
  • Wendy Barker
    • The Navy Blue Chair
    • Red Chair at the Piano Recital
  • Charles Baxter
    • Midwestern Poetics
  • James McKean
    • Stump Farm
    • Headlong
  • Reynolds Price
    • Three Secrets
Brief Reviews
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Brief Reviews
    • The Long Approach, by Maxine Kumin
    • Leaning Forward, by Grace Paley
    • A Fraction of Darkness, by Linda Pastan
    • Saints & Strangers, by Andrew Hudgins
    • The Triumph of Achilles, by Louise Glck
    • Alternate Means of Transport, by Cynthia Macdonald
    • Orrery, by Richard Kenney
    • The New World: An Epic Poem, by Frederick Turner
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  • Wendy Barker
  • Charles Baxter
  • Maria Flook
  • Gail Mazur
  • James McKean
  • Reynolds Price
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Cathy Song
  • Jon Veinberg
  • David Wagoner
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