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August 1986

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Bruce Berger
Thomas Carper
John Ciardi
Tom Disch

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Table of Contents

Thomas Carper
Tom Disch
- In Defense of Forest Lawn
- The Argument Resumed; Or, up through Tribeca
Allen Ginsberg
- Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams
Judith Skillman
- The Librarian Decides on Cryonics
Robert N. Feinstein
- Heaven Can't Wait
Albert Goldbarth
Ben Howard
- 1985
- Because You Asked for a Bedtime Story
Bill Meissner
- So Many Americans, Driving Late on Country Roads
David M. Graham
- The Day I Cannot Stop Crying
- Self-Portrait with Stage Fright
William Greenway
- The Best Days of Your Life
- Our Father Who Art on Third
Susan Kaplan
- The Servant's Choice
Bruce Berger
- Transmigration
John Ciardi
- A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats

Comment

John Frederick Nims
- John Ciardi: The Many Lives of Poetry

Contents

Greg Kuzma
- From Translations from the English

Contributors
- - Thomas Carper
  - Tom Disch
  - Allen Ginsberg
  - Judith Skillman
  - Robert N. Feinstein
- - Albert Goldbarth
  - Ben Howard
  - Bill Meissner
  - David M. Graham
  - William Greenway
- - Susan Kaplan
  - Bruce Berger
  - John Ciardi
  - John Frederick Nims
  - Greg Kuzma