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February 1988

 
  • Philip Appleman
  • Michael Blumenthal
  • Raymond Carver
  • Stephen Corey
  • Richard Foerster
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Complicated Shadows

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Days of '74

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Sleeping Alone

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Corey
    • Complicated Shadows
  • Mark Jarman
    • Days of '74
The Rest of My Life
  • May Swenson
    • Sleeping Alone
    • A Spring Morning
    • Unable to Write It
    • What Matters
    • The Rest of My Life
    • I'm One
  • David Ignatow
    • From Six Love Poems
    • ("We are seated...")
    • ("What would life be...?")
    • ("Let's see how natural...")
    • If
  • Richard Foerster
    • Playland
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
    • Company Cafeteria
  • Richard Howard
    • Triangulations
  • Linda Pastan
    • After an Absence
    • Beauty Shop
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • To a Friend Who Threw Away Hair Dyes
    • Falling in Love at Sixty-Five
  • Michael C. Blumenthal
    • The Pleasures of Old Age
  • Philip Schultz
    • The Answering Machine
  • Raymond Carver
    • Margo
  • Philip Appleman
    • Heavenly Body
Comment
  • Linda Gregerson
    • Short Reviews
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Appleman
  • Michael C. Blumenthal
  • Raymond Carver
  • Stephen Corey
  • Richard Foerster
  • Linda Gregerson
  • Richard Howard
  • David Ignatow
  • Mark Jarman
  • Linda Pastan
  • Philip Schultz
  • May Swenson
  • Mona Van Duyn
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
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