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May 1990

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

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Wendy Barker
Jared Carter
Gillian Conoley
Mark Doty
Debora Greger

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Table of Contents

Dennis Hinrichsen
- Testament
- Poem of Mercy
Nicholas Samaras
- Amnesiac
Jared Carter
- For an Old Flame
Mary Karr
- Etching of the Plague Years
Greg Johnson
- Aid and Comfort
- Sexual Outlaw
Gillian Conoley
- The Farmer's Daughter and the Travelling Salesman
- Wanda
David Huddle
- Asylum
Robert Hill Long
- The Mouse
Wendy Barker
- From the Attic at Thornfield
Debora Greger
- Cleopatra in the Afterworld
- The Boy Juliet
Robert Pack
- The Dead King
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- The Dead Cartesian
Robert J. Levy
- Meditation on Virginia Woolf's Final Diary Entry, Written Three Weeks before Her Suicide
Alison Stone
- What the Spirit Seeks

Facts and Figures

Steven Cramer

Contents

Mark Doty
- The Death of Antinoüs

Contributors
- - Dennis Hinrichsen
  - Nicholas Samaras
  - Jared Carter
  - Mary Karr
  - Greg Johnson
  - Gillian Conoley
- - David Huddle
  - Robert Hill Long
  - Wendy Barker
  - Debora Greger
  - Robert Pack
  - Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- - Robert J. Levy
  - Alison Stone
  - Steven Cramer
  - Mark Doty