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May 1985

 
  • John Ashbery
  • Richard Barnes
  • D Berry
  • David Bottoms
  • Jon Davis
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Table of Contents

  • David Wagoner
    • The Play
    • Our Father
    • Our Model
    • Mockingbird
  • Gary Fincke
    • A Murder of Crows
    • The Local Cemetery
  • Michael Waters
    • Reading Dickens
  • Laurence Goldstein
    • Homesick in Los Angeles
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Brotherly
    • Poem Whose Last Sentence Is 17 Syllables after a Suggestion
    • Steerage
  • D C Berry
    • Baby
    • Daddy
    • Sir Walter Ralegh and the Milkweed
    • Dancer
  • Richard Barnes
    • You
    • To a Child Who Cut His Finger for the First Time
    • The Assassin
  • Barry Sternlieb
    • First Lesson
  • Jon Davis
    • White Body, Green Moss
  • David Bottoms
    • Homage to Lester Flatt
    • Appearances
  • Lewis Horne
    • Homage to G.G.
    • Silent Things
    • Conundrums of Color
  • Dabney Stuart
    • Listening
  • James Baker Hall
    • Final
    • Identifying the Body
    • On the Day of Balanchine's Death
Comment
  • John Ashbery
    • Sacred Beings: Writers in Recorded Conversation
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ashbery
  • Richard Barnes
  • D C Berry
  • David Bottoms
  • Jon Davis
  • Gary Fincke
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Laurence Goldstein
  • James Baker Hall
  • Lewis Horne
  • Barry Sternlieb
  • Dabney Stuart
  • David Wagoner
  • Michael Waters
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