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December 1973

 
  • Robert Chatain
  • Gerrit Henry
  • David Lehman
  • Charles Martin
  • James McMichael
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Elegy for Yards, Pounds, and Gallons

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Lauds

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Riding in the Elevator

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Table of Contents

  • David Wagoner
    • Elegy for Yards, Pounds, and Gallons
  • James McMichael
    • Lauds
    • Clear Teeth
    • Its Time
  • Leroy Searle
    • Riding in the Elevator
    • Preparing for the Earth
  • David Lehman
    • Edvard Munch
  • Jane Shore
    • Landscape with Trees
    • The Sleeper Watched: Three Studies
    • The Anniversary
    • A Letter Sent to Summer
  • Robert Chatain
    • Retraction
    • World of Darkness
    • Connemara Wind Ode
  • Barry Spacks
    • Local Messages
    • Before a Statue of Kuan Yin
  • Ira Sadoff
    • Four Variations on the History of Speech
  • Charles Martin
    • Erogenous Zones
    • Orgy with Toads
  • David Shapiro
    • The Night Sky
    • Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring
  • Gerrit Henry
    • The Lecturer's Aria
Comment
  • Paul Smyth
    • Less Tit than Tat
    • Gnomes & Occasions, by Howard Nemerov
    • Legion: Civic Choruses, by William Harmon
    • Inscriptions, by Anthony Thwaite
    • Runes, by James K. Baxter
    • Another Life, by Derek Walcott
  • David Lehman
    • Politics
    • Monster, by Robin Morgan
    • Debridement, by Michael S. Harper
    • The Energy of Slaves, by Leonard Cohen
    • Burning the Empty Nests, by Gregory Orr
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robert Chatain
  • Gerrit Henry
  • David Lehman
  • Charles Martin
  • James McMichael
  • Ira Sadoff
  • Leroy Searle
  • David Shapiro
  • Jane Shore
  • Paul Smyth
  • Barry Spacks
  • David Wagoner
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