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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1987

January 1987

 
  • Ralph Angel
  • David Baker
  • Michael Collier
  • Mark Cox
  • Gregory Djanikian
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A Simple Purchase

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Card Game

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And the Grass Did Grow

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Table of Contents

  • Molly Peacock
    • A Simple Purchase
    • The Spell
  • Michael Spence
    • Card Game
    • The Hollow Bargain
    • Adam Chooses
  • Ralph Angel
    • And the Grass Did Grow
    • Shadow Play
    • The Loneliest Man in the World
  • Jane O. Wayne
    • Walking into the Wind
    • The Last Visit
    • Isoptera
  • David Baker
    • Starlight
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • After Thanksgiving
    • Gold Tooth
  • Edward Mayes
    • Departure Tax
    • Consider/Desire
  • Mark Cox
    • Things My Grandfather Must Have Said
    • I Want to Know What Love Is
    • Lemon Icing
  • Michael Collier
    • The Diver
    • A Private Place
  • Maura Stanton
    • Wander Indiana
    • Pole Vaulting
  • Nance Van Winckel
    • Counting Towards Sleep
    • Goodnight
  • Gary Fincke
    • Bourbon, Red Meat, Salt, Grease
    • Enlisting
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • In the Elementary School Choir
    • How I Learned English
    • When I First Saw Snow
  • Stanley Moss
    • Lullaby
    • Following the Saints
    • Songs of the Imaginary Arabs
    • To Ariel Bloch, My Arabist Friend
    • Exchange of Gifts
    • Work Song
Comment
  • Alicia Ostriker
    • The Tune of Crisis
    • Your Native Land, Your Life, by Adrienne Rich
    • Sin, by Ai
    • The Gold Cell, by Sharon Olds
    • A Fish To Feed All Hunger, by Sandra Alcosser
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  • Ralph Angel
  • David Baker
  • Michael Collier
  • Mark Cox
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Gary Fincke
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Edward Mayes
  • Stanley Moss
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Molly Peacock
  • Michael Spence
  • Maura Stanton
  • Nance Van Winckel
  • Jane O. Wayne
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