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July 1981

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

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Michael Blumenthal
Turner Cassity
Tony Connor
Stephen Dobyns
Irving Feldman

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1981

Table of Contents

Six Poems after Balthus

Stephen Dobyns

Robert Long
Turner Cassity
- Ghosts
Tony Connor
- Reminiscences Remembered
Michael C. Blumenthal
- Days We Would Rather Know
Marilyn Hacker
- Gerda in the Eyrie
Roger Weingarten
- The Afterlife
Deborah Tall
- Anima
- Memorabilia
Rebecca Weiner
- Birds
- Driving Around
Gary Soto
Toney Teague
- Assault on Second Avenue
- Woman in White
Robert Pack
- Making Her Will
Carole Oles
- Like Musical Chairs
- Better Vision
Irving Feldman
- Social Constructions of Reality at Coney Island

Comment

J. D. McClatchy
- Figures in the Landscape

Contributors
- - Stephen Dobyns
  - Robert Long
  - Turner Cassity
  - Tony Connor
  - Michael C. Blumenthal
- - Marilyn Hacker
  - Roger Weingarten
  - Deborah Tall
  - Rebecca Weiner
  - Gary Soto
- - Toney Teague
  - Robert Pack
  - Carole Oles
  - Irving Feldman
  - J. D. McClatchy