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April 1987

 
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Dick Allen
  • Elliot Figman
  • Robert Fink
  • Susan Fox
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Spring's Awakening

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The Sadness of Rivers

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Grace

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Table of Contents

  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Spring's Awakening
  • Maurya Simon
    • The Sadness of Rivers
  • Phillis Levin
    • Grace
    • Machines
    • On Marble
  • Dick Allen
    • Notes after Ether
    • Barge Lights on the Hudson
    • The Commuter
  • Art Homer
    • Commuter's Log
  • Elliot Figman
    • Station Music
  • Robert Morgan
    • Hayfield
    • Moving the Bees
  • Linda Pastan
    • The Dogwoods
    • Accidents
  • Brooks Haxton
    • My Friends
    • Northbound
  • Robert Hill Long
    • Hatteras
    • Fin de Siècle
  • Tom Sleigh
    • Animus
    • The Seal
    • First Love
  • Robert Wiljer
    • Afterward
    • Quick Dip
  • Enid Shomer
    • Wild Plum
  • Diane Ackerman
    • Lament of the Banyan Tree
    • Gramercy Park
    • St. Louis Botanical Gardens
  • Robert A. Fink
    • Mesquite
  • Susan Fox
    • Penelope Gardening
Short Reviews
  • David Shapiro
    • Short Reviews
    • The Happy Man, by Donald Hall
    • Arts & Sciences, by Albert Goldbarth
    • The Complete Poems, by Edwin Denby (Ed. by Ron Padgett)
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  • Diane Ackerman
  • Dick Allen
  • Elliot Figman
  • Robert A. Fink
  • Susan Fox
  • Brooks Haxton
  • Art Homer
  • Phillis Levin
  • Robert Hill Long
  • Robert Morgan
  • Linda Pastan
  • David Shapiro
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Enid Shomer
  • Maurya Simon
  • Tom Sleigh
  • Robert Wiljer
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