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October 1984

 
  • John Allman
  • David Bottoms
  • John Brehm
  • Michael Collier
  • B. Fairchild
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Table of Contents

  • Linda Pastan
    • Waiting Room
    • At My Desk
    • Overture
  • Mary Ann Waters
    • Diver
    • Although It Was Late in the Season
    • Taxi
  • Michael Collier
    • Flyer
    • Consider the Garden
  • Sarah Provost
    • The Lonely Man Plans a Picnic
    • Pastoral
    • Mercurochrome
  • John Allman
    • Croton Dam
    • The Token
  • Tom Johnson
    • The Chinese Wall
  • David Bottoms
    • The Anniversary
    • Naval Photograph: 25 October 1942: What the Hand May Be Saying
    • The Desk
    • A Tent beside a River
  • David Wojahn
    • Glassworks at Saratoga
    • This Moment
  • Debora Greger
    • The Rome of Keats
  • B. H. Fairchild
    • Flight
  • John Brehm
    • Autumn
    • Insomnia: For My Grandfather
  • Henry Taylor
    • Taking to the Woods
Short Reviews
  • Linda Gregerson
    • Short Reviews
    • The Dead and the Living, by Sharon Olds
    • American Primitive, by Mary Oliver
    • Bonfire, by Celia Gilbert
    • Portraits and Elegies, by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
    • The Hands in Exile, by Susan Tichy
    • Natural Affinities, by Erica Funkhouser
    • The Going Under of the Evening Land, by Mekeel McBride
    • The Yellow House on the Corner and Museum, by Rita Dove
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  • John Allman
  • David Bottoms
  • John Brehm
  • Michael Collier
  • B. H. Fairchild
  • Debora Greger
  • Linda Gregerson
  • Tom Johnson
  • Linda Pastan
  • Sarah Provost
  • Henry Taylor
  • Mary Ann Waters
  • David Wojahn
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