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May 1988

 
  • Robin Behn
  • Jack Butler
  • David Citino
  • Mark Cox
  • Gregory Djanikian
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The People Next Door

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The Key to Nothing

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An Awful Lot Was Happening

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Table of Contents

  • Louis Simpson
    • The People Next Door
  • Jack Butler
    • The Key to Nothing
    • Practice
  • Lawrence Joseph
    • An Awful Lot Was Happening
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes
    • Late at Night in Bed
  • Gary Soto
    • Elegy ("The mountain, snow-covered...")
    • Worry at the End of the Month
  • Victoria Hallerman
    • Beneath the Interstate
  • W. S. Merwin
    • The Overpass
  • Mark Cox
    • Simile at the Side of the Road
  • Mary Ann Waters
    • Bath
    • Car
  • Jeffrey Harrison
    • Bathtubs, Three Varieties
    • The One That Got Away
  • Robin Behn
    • Angels
    • Open Heart
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Brink
    • Freight Cars
    • Thoughts at Thirty-Thousand Feet
  • David Citino
    • In the Kitchen, He Recalls a Passage from Suetonius
    • Charcoal Sketch of Aged Couple in Peasant Dress, circa 1880
Short Reviews
  • Vernon Shetley
    • Short Reviews
    • The Owl of Minerva, by James Laughlin [Ezra Pound]
    • Under the Vulture-Tree, by David Bottoms
    • The West Door, by Alfred Corn
    • Skating with Heather Grace, by Thomas Lynch
    • The Arkansas Testament, by Derek Walcott [James Merrill]
    • An Oregon Message, by William Stafford
    • April Galleons, by John Ashbery
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  • Robin Behn
  • Jack Butler
  • David Citino
  • Mark Cox
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Victoria Hallerman
  • Jeffrey Harrison
  • Lawrence Joseph
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Vernon Shetley
  • Louis Simpson
  • Gary Soto
  • Mary Ann Waters
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