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December 1990

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

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L. Asekoff
Bruce Beasley
Stephen Bluestone
David Burr
Thomas Carper

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Image of Poetry magazine cover, December 1990

Table of Contents

William Wilborn
- On the Uncompleted Madonna of Michelangelo in the National Gallery
Bruce Beasley
- After an Adoration
Linda Gregerson
- Good News
- An Arbor
L. S. Asekoff
- In the House of the Deafman
- Kafka's Angels
Thomas Carper
- Like the Spaniards
Dennis O'Driscoll
- Reading Primo Levi on the Train
Caroline Finkelstein
- Not Responsible
Stephen Bluestone
- The Unveiling
Linda Pastan
- December 18: For M
- Sestina at 3 A.M.
Brent Pallas
- Winter Flies
- Constance Wilde
David Stanford Burr
- Dowsing for the Mole at Age Eight
- An Abidance
Paul Rice
- Timber Rattler
Walter McDonald
- Starting a Pasture
Robert Cording
- Goat
Mary Jean Irion
- The Green Gatherers at Sounion
D. L. Zerden
- Riverside Drive
David Jauss
- Quotations for a Winter Evening

Comment

James Richardson
- Becoming Elizabeth Bishop

Contributors
- - William Wilborn
  - Bruce Beasley
  - Linda Gregerson
  - L. S. Asekoff
  - Thomas Carper
  - Dennis O'Driscoll
- - Caroline Finkelstein
  - Stephen Bluestone
  - Linda Pastan
  - Brent Pallas
  - David Stanford Burr
  - Paul Rice
- - Walter McDonald
  - Robert Cording
  - Mary Jean Irion
  - D. L. Zerden
  - David Jauss
  - James Richardson