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August 1988

 
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Joan Aleshire
  • Wendy Barker
  • Joan Colby
  • Henri Cole
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Fog Tropes

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A Half-Life

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The Foreign Element

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Table of Contents

  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Fog Tropes
  • Henri Cole
    • A Half-Life
  • Greg Johnson
    • The Foreign Element
    • Visiting the Sick
  • Joan Colby
    • The Art of Dying
  • Steven Cramer
    • The Hospitals
  • John Richard Reed
    • Transported
    • Treatment
  • James Solheim
    • Roughing-in a House
    • Echocardiogram
  • Wendy Barker
    • Identifying Things
  • Roger Weingarten
    • The Forever Bird
  • Judith McCombs
    • Burden
  • Enid Shomer
    • For Those Who Are No Longer Young
    • Villa Maria
  • Molly Peacock
    • The Dark
  • Wesley McNair
    • The Revival
  • Peter Davison
    • Mother & Child #3
  • Jayanta Mahapatra
    • Another Hour's Bell
  • Joan Aleshire
    • Healing
    • Engrams
  • Celia Gilbert
    • After-Image
    • The Death of St. Francis
    • Requiem
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Rain/Insomnia/North Coast
    • Memory Fails
    • Seizure
  • Lorrie Goldensohn
    • The World as Conscious Will
    • Anesthesia
    • Promises
Comment
  • Anthony Hecht
    • Bringing Poems to Medical School Teaching: A Memoir
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Joan Aleshire
  • Wendy Barker
  • Joan Colby
  • Henri Cole
  • Steven Cramer
  • Peter Davison
  • Celia Gilbert
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Lorrie Goldensohn
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Greg Johnson
  • Jayanta Mahapatra
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Judith McCombs
  • Wesley McNair
  • Molly Peacock
  • John Richard Reed
  • Enid Shomer
  • James Solheim
  • Roger Weingarten
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