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April 1990

 
  • Agha Ali
  • Mark Anderson
  • Grace Bauer
  • Judith Berke
  • Chana Bloch
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What Is It?

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Thaw

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Eve Recollecting the Garden

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Mary Oliver
    • What Is It?
    • Spring
  • Neal Bowers
    • Thaw
  • Grace Bauer
    • Eve Recollecting the Garden
    • Frida Digresses on Red
  • Kathleen Norris
    • Mrs. Adam
    • Ascension
  • Chana Bloch
    • Rising to Meet It
    • Afterlife
    • White Petticoats
  • T. Alan Broughton
    • An Old Riddle
    • Toward Light
  • James Langlas
    • Waiting to Adopt a Child
  • Mark Halperin
    • On the Steps of Temple Shalom
  • Donald Revell
    • An Episode of the Great Awakening in New England
  • Donald Platt
    • Aria for This Listening Area
    • Kore
  • Agha Shahid Ali
    • At the Museum
Short Reviews
  • Henri Cole
    • Short Reviews
    • Unfinished Painting, by Mary Jo Salter
    • Take Heart, by Molly Peacock
    • God Hunger, by Michael Ryan
    • The Little Voices of the Pears, by Herbert Morris
    • Falling Deeply into America, by Gregory Djanikian
    • Nurture, by Maxine Kumin
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Agha Shahid Ali
  • Grace Bauer
  • Chana Bloch
  • Neal Bowers
  • T. Alan Broughton
  • Henri Cole
  • Mark Halperin
  • James Langlas
  • Kathleen Norris
  • Mary Oliver
  • Donald Platt
  • Donald Revell
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