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December 1986

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

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Raymond Carver
Turner Cassity
Alfred Corn
James Dickey
Gregory Djanikian

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1986

Table of Contents

Philip Levine
- The Whole Soul
- Winter Words
Henri Cole
- Cape Cod Elegy
Gibbons Ruark
- Postscript to an Elegy
David Bergman
- Bonzai for Beginners
- In the Waiting Room
Robert Cording
Roberta Spear
- In the Moon
Baron Wormser
- A Reply to the Journalist Who Informed the Russian People in Izvestia That There Was No Santa Claus
Michael Waters
- Romance in the Old Folks' Home
- The Conversion of Saint Paul
Roger Weingarten
- Then My Father's Insomnia Will Break like the Wine Glass I Crushed Underfoot at My Wedding
James Harms
- Mexican Christmas
Stuart Dybek
Ernest Sandeen

Short Reviews

J. P. White

Raymond Carver
- Comment
Turner Cassity
- Comment
Alfred Corn
- Comment

Contents

James L. Dickey
- Comment
Gregory Djanikian
- Comment

Contributors
- - Philip Levine
  - Henri Cole
  - Gibbons Ruark
  - David Bergman
  - Robert Cording
  - Roberta Spear
- - Baron Wormser
  - Michael Waters
  - Roger Weingarten
  - James Harms
  - Stuart Dybek
  - Ernest Sandeen