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August 1991

 
  • James Applewhite
  • Jeanne Beaumont
  • Robert Bense
  • Bruce Bond
  • Rhina Espaillat
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Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop

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Insomnia

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Fall

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Table of Contents

  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop
  • Greg Johnson
    • Insomnia
    • Withholding the Last Word
  • Ronald Wilson
    • Fall
    • An Old Woman Gives Away Her Things
  • Rhina P. Espaillat
    • Changeling
    • Cutting Bait
  • Linda Pastan
    • All We Have to Go By
    • Angels
  • Eric Nelson
    • A Mind of Summer
  • Sarah Gorham
    • Hymn to the Intellect
  • Gary Fincke
    • Reaching the Deaf
    • The Conversation of Elephants
    • The Stuttering Cures
  • Al Maginnes
    • Earworm
  • Bruce Bond
    • On Certainty
  • Greg Williamson
    • Picnic in the Park
    • Drawing Hands
  • James Applewhite
    • Storm in the Briar Patch
  • Edward Mayes
    • The Death of Literature
  • Jean Janzen
    • Identifying the Fire
  • Robert Bense
    • Contra August
  • Jessica Lamb
    • The Opening Question
  • Jeanne Marie Beaumont
    • Judging the Book by Its Cover
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • Afternoon in the Central Nervous System
Comment
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Amid the Groves, Under the Shadowy Hill, the Generations Are Prepared
CONTRIBUTORS
  • James Applewhite
  • Jeanne Marie Beaumont
  • Robert Bense
  • Bruce Bond
  • Rhina P. Espaillat
  • Gary Fincke
  • Sarah Gorham
  • Jean Janzen
  • Greg Johnson
  • Jessica Lamb
  • Al Maginnes
  • Edward Mayes
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Eric Nelson
  • Linda Pastan
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  • Greg Williamson
  • Ronald Wilson
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