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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Nov 1988

November 1988

 
  • Michael Burns
  • Ralph Burns
  • Peter Cooley
  • John Daniel
  • Alice Fulton
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Black Fairy Tale

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Shore Leave

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A Union House

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Table of Contents

  • Elizabeth Spires
    • Black Fairy Tale
    • Fabergé's Egg
  • Lynda Hull
    • Shore Leave
    • Slick Packages
  • Alice Fulton
    • A Union House
    • Self-Storage
  • Brendan Galvin
    • War in the Garden
    • Kale Soup
  • Michael McFee
    • Shooting Baskets at Dusk
    • Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann
  • Peter Cooley
    • The Soul
    • Holy Family: Audubon Zoo, New Orleans
  • John Daniel
    • The Meal
    • To the Scrub Jay on My Office Mate's Desk
  • Walter McDonald
    • The Songs We Fought For
    • Coming Home
  • Eric Nelson
    • Thanksgiving
    • Miscarriage
  • Ralph Burns
    • Lullaby
Five Latitudes
  • Ben Howard
    • Five Latitudes
    • To Urania, by Joseph Brodsky(Tr. by Joseph Brodsky et. al.)
    • Flight and Pursuit, by Dick Allen
    • Dreams by No One's Daughter, by Leslie Ullman
Contents
  • Ben Howard
    • Selected Poems: 1938-1988, by Thomas McGrath
    • Selected Poems, by Jayanta Mahapatra
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Ralph Burns
  • Peter Cooley
  • John Daniel
  • Alice Fulton
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Ben Howard
  • Lynda Hull
  • Walter McDonald
  • Michael McFee
  • Eric Nelson
  • Elizabeth Spires
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