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Poetry Magazine cover for March 1988 issue

March 1988

 
  • Dannie Abse
  • Jack Butler
  • Thomas Carper
  • John Ciardi
  • Robert Cording
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Public Service Announcement

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Class Bully

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Essay: The Yearbook

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Table of Contents

  • Lisel Mueller
    • Public Service Announcement
    • Cavalleria Rusticana
    • Poem for My Birthday
    • Writing in the Eighties
    • Missing the Dead
  • Thomas Reiter
    • Class Bully
  • Jon Davis
    • Essay: The Yearbook
  • Robert Cording
    • The Gravity of Anonymity
  • Dannie Abse
    • Smiling Through
  • John Ciardi
    • Elegy for a Cave Full of Bones
  • Gerald Stern
    • The Bull-Roarer
  • William Logan
    • The Age of Ballroom Dining
  • Miklós Radnóti
    • Letter to My Wife
    • Foamy Sky (Tr. by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frederick Turner)
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  • Dannie Abse
  • John Ciardi
  • Robert Cording
  • Jon Davis
  • William Logan
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Miklós Radnóti
  • Thomas Reiter
  • Gerald Stern
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