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December 1997

 
  • Neal Bowers
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Maria Cariño
  • Kelly Cherry
  • Creech
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The Silence of the Stars

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The Mystic Life

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Concerning Paradise

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Table of Contents

Poetry
  • David Wagoner
    • The Silence of the Stars
  • Charles Simic
    • The Mystic Life
  • Christopher Buckley
    • Concerning Paradise
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • November Afternoon
  • Paul Kane
    • Variations on a Stanza by Longfellow
  • Ronald Wallace
    • Pleasure
  • Robert Gibb
    • Quatrains for a Christmas Bear
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Under Hydra
  • Carl Dennis
    • Bibles and Driveways
    • At the Dock
  • Morri Creech
    • Prayer to My Living Father
    • Testament
  • Grant Flint
    • Making God
  • Richard Kenney
    • 0,1
  • Maria Luisa A. Cariño
    • The Other Annunciation
  • Kelly Cherry
    • Study for an Annunciation
  • Linda Pastan
    • The Islands
    • Night Falls on Nantucket Sound
  • X J Kennedy
    • "The Purpose of Time Is To Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
  • Neal Bowers
    • Duration
  • John Hollander
    • An Afterward
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • Now the Good Minute Goes
  • Jon Loomis
    • Last Days
  • David Ricks
    • Landscape, After Ruisdael
Comment
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Prufrock Redivivus
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Neal Bowers
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Maria Luisa A. Cariño
  • Kelly Cherry
  • Morri Creech
  • Carl Dennis
  • Grant Flint
  • Robert Gibb
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • John Hollander
  • Paul Kane
  • X J Kennedy
  • Richard Kenney
  • Jon Loomis
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Linda Pastan
  • David Ricks
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Charles Simic
  • David Wagoner
  • Ronald Wallace
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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