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August 1990

 
  • Dannie Abse
  • Randy Blasing
  • Marianne Boruch
  • Billy Collins
  • Alfred Corn
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Nine Lives

By James Merrill
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Permanent Ink

By Randy Blasing
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Looking Ahead

By John Dickson
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Table of Contents

  • James Merrill
    • Nine Lives
  • Randy Blasing
    • Permanent Ink
    • Lifelines
  • John Dickson
    • Looking Ahead
  • David Rivard
    • C' Un'Altra Possibilit
  • Billy Collins
    • The Afterlife
    • Mappamundi
  • Carolyne Wright
    • A Change of Maps
  • Theodore Worozbyt
    • A Unified Theory of Light
    • Northern Lights
  • Marianne Boruch
    • Rare Old Violins
  • Dannie Abse
    • Musical Moments
  • D. Nurkse
    • Introit & Fugue
    • First Grade Homework
  • Michael Waters
    • "Night in the Tropics" (1858-59?)
    • Shhh
  • Richard Foerster
    • Love Affair
  • Isabel Nathaniel
    • Sick at the Gulf
  • Alfred Corn
    • Infernal Regions and the Invisible Girl
  • Stephen Stepanchev
    • Seven Horizons
  • F. D. Reeve
    • 3 Sunsets at Hammonasset
  • Charles Simic
    • Evening Walk
  • Reg Saner
    • Evening
    • Keen Edges
Comment
  • Paul Breslin
    • Poetry, Criticism, and the World
    • White Paper: On Contemporary American Poetry, by J. D. McClatchy
    • Poetry and the World, by Robert Pinsky
    • [Robert Lowell, Amy Clampitt, Anthony Hecht, Jean Toomer, Philip Freneau, William Carlos Williams]
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Dannie Abse
  • Randy Blasing
  • Marianne Boruch
  • Paul Breslin
  • Billy Collins
  • Alfred Corn
  • John Dickson
  • Richard Foerster
  • James Merrill
  • Isabel Nathaniel
  • D. Nurkse
  • F. D. Reeve
  • David Rivard
  • Reg Saner
  • Charles Simic
  • Stephen Stepanchev
  • Michael Waters
  • Theodore Worozbyt
  • Carolyne Wright
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