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October 1991

 
  • A. Ammons
  • Georgi Belev
  • T. Broughton
  • Billy Collins
  • Steven Cramer
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An Improvisation for Angular Momentum

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Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth

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Rain

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Table of Contents

  • A. R. Ammons
    • An Improvisation for Angular Momentum
    • An Improvisation for Soot and Suet
    • An Improvisation for the Pieties of Modernism
  • Sandra McPherson
    • Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth
  • Mary Oliver
    • Rain
  • Jeffrey Harrison
    • Mycology
  • Billy Collins
    • The Art of Drowning
  • Steven Cramer
    • The Game
  • T. Alan Broughton
    • Lyric
  • Martial
    • Three Translations from the Epigrams
    • V: X
    • VII: XLVI
    • XII: XL (Tr. by William Matthews)
  • William Matthews
    • Reticence
    • The Buddy Bolden Cylinder
    • Mingus at the Showplace
    • Three Translations from Martial's Epigrams
  • Daniel J. Langton
    • Everything Is Clear except Events
  • Alice Friman
    • Invitation to a Minor Poet
Comment
  • Alice Fulton
    • On the Plains of Fancy
    • The Dogwood Tree, by Jennifer Atkinson
    • No Private Life, by Michelle Boisseau
    • Bright Moves, by J. Allyn Rosser
    • Sea Room, by Maria Flook
    • The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems; The Six-Cornered Snowflake;and Zany in Denim, by John Frederick Nims
    • [René Girard]
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  • T. Alan Broughton
  • Billy Collins
  • Steven Cramer
  • Alice Friman
  • Alice Fulton
  • Jeffrey Harrison
  • Daniel J. Langton
  • Martial
  • William Matthews
  • Sandra McPherson
  • Mary Oliver
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