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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1987

June 1987

 
  • David Bottoms
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Thomas Carper
  • James Crenner
  • Stephen Dunn
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Clouds in Summer

By Christopher Buckley
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The Prime Mover

By Edward Mayes
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Rats at Allatoona

By David Bottoms
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Table of Contents

  • Christopher Buckley
    • Clouds in Summer
    • On the Eiffel Tower
  • Edward Mayes
    • The Prime Mover
  • David Bottoms
    • Rats at Allatoona
    • In Heritage Farms, Settled
  • Debora Greger
    • Narcissus
    • The 1,002nd Night
  • Greg Glazner
    • Red Tide, a Beach of Salvage
  • Gary Soto
    • Ars Poetica, or Mazatlan, on a Day When Bodies Wash to the Shore
    • Rough Translation of a Sabines Poem
  • Jane Kenyon
    • On the Aisle
    • The Blue Bowl
  • Stephen Dunn
    • Sweetness
    • Emptiness
    • Tenderness
    • Loveliness
    • Cleanliness
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • Profil Perdu
Comment
  • Alice Fulton
    • The State of the Art
    • Archaic Figure, by Amy Clampitt
    • The Clasp and Other Poems, by Michael Collier
    • Chinese Architecture, by Aleda Shirley
    • Forms of Conversion, by Allison Funk
    • The Enchanted Room, by Maurya Simon
    • Waving at Trains, by John Dickson
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  • Christopher Buckley
  • Stephen Dunn
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  • Elizabeth Spires
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