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Table of ContentsOctober1987
Poetry
Dannie Abse
Of Two Languages
Ai
Interview with a Policeman
Dick Allen
Another Knowledge
Phillip Appleman
Gathering by the River
John Ashbery
Unreleased Movie
Peter Balakian
Domestic Lament
Mary Barnard
On Arriving
Marvin Bell
The Moon Is Visible Tonight
Wendell Berry
To My Mother
Randy Blasing
Calling
Michael C. Blumenthal
First Snow: Cambridge, Mass.
Robert Bly
Prayer for My Father
Philip Booth
Presence
David Bottoms
Armored Hearts
Gwendolyn Brooks
Winnie
Christopher Buckley
The Inverse Square Law of the Propagation of Light
Christopher Bursk
The Museum of Fine Arts
Henry Carlisle
Hugo
Hayden Carruth
The Bearer
Jared Carter
Improvisation
Raymond Carver
The Toes
The Net
Turner Cassity
Prometheus in Polynesia
Amy Clampitt
Westward
Stephen Corey
Ars Poetica
Alfred Corn
The Chi-Rho Page from the Book of Kells
Peter Davison
Equinox 1980
Carl Dennis
Horace and I
James L. Dickey
Gila Bend
The Six
Tom Disch
Medusa at Her Vanity
Gregory Djanikian
Alexandria, 1953
Stephen Dobyns
Long Story
Rita Dove
Ars Poetica
Stephen Dunn
Why I Think I'm a Writer
Stuart Dybek
Island
Richard Eberhart
Singular, Desolate, Out of It
Speech of Acceptance
Paul Engle
Drop of Water
Donald Finkel
The Phrygian Version
Yannis Kondos
Old Stories (Tr. by Kimon Friar)
Alice Fulton
Trouble in Mind
Tess Gallagher
If Poetry Were Not a Morality
Redwing
Celia Gilbert
She's Painted a Blue Fish, a Red Apple
Sandra M. Gilbert
Against Poetry
Dana Gioia
Night Watch
Albert Goldbarth
The Way the Novel Functions
Thom Gunn
Patch Work
Daniel G. Hoffman
Fables
Jonathan Holden
Some Basic Aesthetics
John Hollander
Coordinating Conjunction
Richard Howard
Famed Dancer Dies of Phosphorus Poisoning
David Ignatow
Witness
Rodney Jones
Life of Sundays
Erica Jong
Middle Aged Lovers I
Lawrence Joseph
On Nature
X J Kennedy
On Being Accused of Wit
Richard Kenney
Ocelots, Etc.
Jane Kenyon
After an Illness, Walking the Dog
Thomas Kinsella
At the Ocean's Edge
Kenneth Koch
What People Say About Paris
Maxine W. Kumin
Nurture
With the Caribou
Greg Kuzma
A Day in Late November
James Laughlin
My Ambition
Brad Leithauser
Anonymous' Lament
Parallel Lifelines
Philip Levine
Keats in California
Janet Loxley Lewis
Sunday Morning at the Artists' House
William Logan
Animal Actors on the English Stage After 1642
J. D. McClatchy
Achill Island
Wesley McNair
The Man with the Radios
Sandra McPherson
Presbyterian, 1983
Jayanta Mahapatra
Doors
Gary Margolis
Did You Bring Me Anything?
William Matthews
School Days
William Meredith
Grace
James Merrill
Alessio and the Zinnias
W. S. Merwin
After the Alphabets
A Last Look
Nicholas Moore
Coffee-Coloured Horses of the Moon
Hilda Morley
Song of the Terrible
Howard Moss
The Cardinal
Stanley Moss
Elegy for Myself
Lisel Mueller
When I Am Asked
John Frederick Nims
Dropping the Names
Joyce Carol Oates
Waiting on Elvis, 1956
Motive, Metaphor
Sharon Olds
The Day They Tied Me Up
Carole Oles
On Greyhound, Boston to New York
Mary Oliver
The Hermit Crab
Elder James Olson
Shark and Cockroach
Alicia Ostriker
Stream
Jay Parini
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lover
Linda Pastan
Family Tree
Molly Peacock
When I Love You
Robert Phillips
Suburban Interior
Robert Pinsky
Voyage to the Moon
Katha Pollitt
An Anthology of Socialist Verse
Fishbowl
Peter Porter
Pontormo's Sister
Reynolds Price
Unbeaten Play
Lawrence Raab
Stories in Which the Past Is Made
Bin Ramke
One View of the Wide, Wide World
Adrienne Rich
Dreamwood
J. W. Rivers
April in a Mountain Cabin: Swiss Pine Lake, North Carolina
Pattiann Rogers
The Laying-on of Hands
M. L. Rosenthal
At the Last
David St. John
From a Daybook
Ernest Sandeen
A Late Twentieth-Century Prayer
Stephen Sandy
Words for Dr. Richards
Sherod Santos
Inspiration
May Sarton
August Third
Josephine Saunders
With Hands Wide Open
Grace Schulman
"Straight Talk, Straight as the Greek"
Philip Schultz
The Eight-Mile Bike Ride
James Schuyler
Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!
Karl Jay Shapiro
Retirement
On Being Yanked from a Favorite Anthology
Robert B. Shaw
To His Pulse
Charles Simic
The Immortal
Back at the Chicken Shack
Dave Smith
Palmetto Special
William Jay Smith
Journey to the Interior
Katherine Soniat
Desire
Gary Soto
Who Will Know Us?
Roberta Spear
The Uncles
Stephen Spender
Farewell to My Student
William E. Stafford
Presenting These Pieces
Noticing
Your Life
Maura Stanton
Living Apart
George Starbuck
Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
Gerald Stern
Brain of My Heart
Anne Stevenson
Nightmares, Daymoths
Icon
Mark Strand
To Himself
Lucien Stryk
Botanist
May Swenson
Third Floor Walk-Up, 1984
James Tate
Nuisance
Henry Taylor
Master of None
Charles Tomlinson
North with Lawren Harris
Night Ferry
Mona Van Duyn
A Bouquet of Zinnias
David Wagoner
For the Young Vine Maples
Jeanne Murray Walker
Theater
Mary Ann Waters
Travelling Highway 97: Biggs Junction to Weed
Roger Weingarten
Just Another Sunset
Theodore Weiss
An Old Cart
J. P. White
In Ecclesiastes I Read
Richard Wilbur
Trolling for Blues
Robley Wilson Jr.
What You See
David Wojahn
A Fifteenth Anniversary: John Berryman
Baron Wormser
American Poem of the Senior Citizenry

Comment
JANET LEWIS

ELDER OLSON

PAUL ENGLE

GWENDOLYN BROOKS

JAMES DICKEY

JOHN ASHBERY

WILLIAM STAFFORD

A. R. AMMONS

RAYMOND CARVER

JOYCE CAROL OATES

PHILIP BOOTH

WALLACE FOWLIE

JAMES MERRILL

MONA VAN DUYN

THOM GUNN

LISEL MUELLER

X.J. KENNEDY

PETER PORTER

CHARLES TOMLINSON

MARIA FLOOK

M.L. ROSENTHAL

DAVID IGNATOW

TURNER CASSITY

GARY SOTO

J. D. MCCLATCHY

LINDA PASTAN

RICHARD KENNEDY

BRAD LEITHAUSER

ALFRED CORN

CAROLE OLES

WESLEY MCNAIR

GREGORY DJANIKIAN

HENRY TAYLOR

DANA GIOIA


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