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August 1979

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Edward Brash
Jane Flanders
David Ignatow
Judith Kroll
Richmond Lattimore

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1979

Table of Contents

From Cracked Obelisk at Aswan

Lynne Lawner
- The Archer

Barry Spacks
Richmond Lattimore
Jane Flanders
- Wild Asters
Robley Wilson Jr.
- On Not Knowing the Names of the Flowers in Montana
- The Suspense of Meeting
Richard Shelton
Jane P. Moreland
- The Argument
David Ignatow
Cynthia Zarin
- Charlottesville, August
Judith Kroll
- Report to the Dead
- Hotel Metropole
David McCord
Edward Brash
- "Les Demoiselles" of Piney Woods
Mona Van Duyn
- The Ballad of Blossom

Comment

Richard Sieburth
- He Do the Enemy in Different Voices

Contributors
- - Lynne Lawner
  - Barry Spacks
  - Richmond Lattimore
  - Jane Flanders
  - Robley Wilson Jr.
- - Richard Shelton
  - Jane P. Moreland
  - David Ignatow
  - Cynthia Zarin
  - Judith Kroll
- - David McCord
  - Edward Brash
  - Mona Van Duyn
  - Richard Sieburth