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June 1986

 
  • Jennifer Atkinson
  • David Baker
  • David Bottoms
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Raymond Carver
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Choosing Happiness

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The River

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Barn Cat Summer

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Table of Contents

  • Jennifer Atkinson
    • Choosing Happiness
  • Raymond Carver
    • The River
    • A Tall Order
  • Roger Weingarten
    • Barn Cat Summer
  • David Bottoms
    • The Guitar
    • On the Willow Branch
    • The Resurrection
  • Christopher Buckley
    • Walking out the Appian Way past the Circus of Maxentius
    • Evening in Santorini
  • Lawrence Raab
    • Cloud, Castle, Lake
    • At Evening
    • Looking at Pictures
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
    • Sunday at the Shore
    • Hanging Curtains
  • David Baker
    • Sunbathing
  • Lynda Hull
    • Chinese New Year
    • Insect Life of Florida
  • Aleda Shirley
    • Finding the Room
    • Sunset Grand Couturier
    • L'Ivresse des Grandes Profondeurs
  • Miller Williams
    • The Aging Actress Sees Herself a Starlet on the Late Show
    • Tearing down the Hotel
    • On a Trailways Bus a Man Who Holds His Head Strangely Speaks to the Seat beside Him
  • Ed Ochester
    • Having Built the Coop
  • Josephine Jacobsen
    • The Presences
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • Grandmother's Rugs
    • Clouds
  • Gary Soto
    • The Seventieth Year
    • Heaven
Comment
  • Peter Balakian
    • The Poetry of Derek Walcott
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jennifer Atkinson
  • David Baker
  • Peter Balakian
  • David Bottoms
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Raymond Carver
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Lynda Hull
  • Josephine Jacobsen
  • Ed Ochester
  • Lawrence Raab
  • Aleda Shirley
  • Gary Soto
  • Roger Weingarten
  • Miller Williams
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
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