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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1986

December 1986

 
  • Raymond Carver
  • Turner Cassity
  • Alfred Corn
  • James Dickey
  • Gregory Djanikian
Table of Contents

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The Whole Soul

By Philip Levine
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Cape Cod Elegy

By Henri Cole
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Postscript to an Elegy

By Gibbons Ruark
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Table of Contents

  • Philip Levine
    • The Whole Soul
    • Winter Words
  • Henri Cole
    • Cape Cod Elegy
  • Gibbons Ruark
    • Postscript to an Elegy
  • David Bergman
    • Bonzai for Beginners
    • In the Waiting Room
  • Robert Cording
    • Rock of Ages
    • Elegy for John, My Student Dead of AIDS
    • A Cottage in the Country
  • Baron Wormser
    • A Reply to the Journalist Who Informed the Russian People in Izvestia That There Was No Santa Claus
  • Michael Waters
    • Romance in the Old Folks' Home
    • The Conversion of Saint Paul
  • Stuart Dybek
    • Angelus
    • Autobiography
    • Night Walk
    • Tomorrow
Short Reviews
  • J. P. White
    • Short Reviews
    • Unattainable Earth, by Czeslaw Milosz (Tr. by Robert Hass)
    • Dream Palace, by Herbert Morris
    • Local Time, by Stephen Dunn
    • Hurricane Lamp, by Turner Cassity
    • Stars Principal, by J. D. McClatchy
    • A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, by Nicholas Christopher
    • All of Us Here, by Irving Feldman [George Segal]
  • Raymond Carver
    • Comment
  • Turner Cassity
    • Comment
  • Alfred Corn
    • Comment
Contents
  • James L. Dickey
    • Comment
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • Comment
CONTRIBUTORS
  • David Bergman
  • Raymond Carver
  • Turner Cassity
  • Henri Cole
  • Robert Cording
  • Alfred Corn
  • James L. Dickey
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Stuart Dybek
  • Philip Levine
  • Gibbons Ruark
  • Michael Waters
  • J. P. White
  • Baron Wormser
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