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Image of poetry magazine cover December 1996

December 1996

 
  • Katherine Anderson
  • Robert Cording
  • Carl Dennis
  • Tom Disch
  • Faye George
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THE OLD YEAR

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TWO GODS

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WHAT ELSE IS THERE

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Table of Contents

  • W. S. Merwin
    • THE OLD YEAR
    • PORTOVENERE
    • LEGEND
    • SIXTH-FLOOR WALK-UP
    • RETURNS AFTER DARK
  • Carl Dennis
    • TWO GODS
  • Tom Disch
    • WHAT ELSE IS THERE
  • Linda Pastan
    • LETTER
    • The Obligation to Be Happy
  • Faye George
    • THE SUDDEN TUG OF THE FAMILIAR
  • Sharon Olds
    • SLEEP SUITE
  • J. T. Ledbetter
    • MY FATHER'S VOICE
  • Robert Cording
    • SELF-PORTRAIT
Contents
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Poem Beginning with a Quote from Keith Laumer's Galactic Odyssey and Ending with a Quote from Mika Waltari's The Egyptian
    • Ancestored-Back Is the Overpresiding Spirit of This Poem
  • Leslie Ullman
    • Short Reviews
    • The Ghost Volcano, by Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Straight Out of View, by Joyce Sutphen
    • Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems, by Pattiann Rogers
    • The Bank of Beautiful Sins, by Robert Wrigley
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robert Cording
  • Carl Dennis
  • Tom Disch
  • Faye George
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • J. T. Ledbetter
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Sharon Olds
  • Linda Pastan
  • Leslie Ullman
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