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December 1989

 
  • Wendy Barker
  • Laurie Blauner
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Alice Friman
  • Albert Goldbarth
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The Six-Cornered Snowflake

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Stars

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Total Darkness

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Table of Contents

  • John Frederick Nims
    • The Six-Cornered Snowflake
  • Alice Friman
    • Stars
  • Sue Owen
    • Total Darkness
    • Written in Blood
  • Reg Saner
    • How
    • Meanwhile
  • Linda Pastan
    • The Way the Leaves Keep Falling
    • The Myth of Perfectability
    • Sometimes in Winter
  • Clare Rossini
    • Ideology
  • Marcia L. Hurlow
    • For the Linguist Doing Field Work
  • Laurie Blauner
    • The Art of Translation
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Vigil
    • The Talk Show
    • After Seeing the Impressionist Group Exhibit in Kansas City, We Drive Back through Flatness to Wichita
  • Bibhu Prasad Padhi
    • Midnight Consolings
  • William Greenway
    • Intensive Care
  • Wendy Barker
    • Giving up the Dead
  • Reynolds Price
    • The Resident Heron
    • A Heron, a DeerA Single Day
  • Eric Pankey
    • Memory of Heaven
  • Christopher Buckley
    • Apologues of Winter Light
Short Reviews
  • Linda Gregerson
    • Short Reviews
    • Zone Journals, by Charles Wright
    • Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, by Tess Gallagher
    • Lovesick, by Gerald Stern
    • A Walk with Tom Jefferson, by Philip Levine
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  • Wendy Barker
  • Laurie Blauner
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Alice Friman
  • Albert Goldbarth
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  • Marcia L. Hurlow
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Sue Owen
  • Bibhu Prasad Padhi
  • Eric Pankey
  • Linda Pastan
  • Reynolds Price
  • Clare Rossini
  • Reg Saner
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