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October/November 1987

Edward Koren.

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

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  • Paul Engle
  • Maria Flook
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Dana Gioia
  • Thom Gunn
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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October-November 1987
From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Prayer for My Father

      By Robert Bly
      Your head is still
      restless, rolling
      east and west.
      That body in you
      insisting on living
      is the old hawk
      for whom the world
      darkens.
      If I am not
      with you when you die,
      that is just.

      It is all right.
      That part of you cleaned
      my bones more
      than once. But I
      will meet...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine The Bearer

      By Hayden Carruth
      Like all his people he felt at home in the forest.
      The silence beneath great trees, the dimness there,
      The distant high rustling of foliage, the clumps
      Of fern like little green fountains, patches of sunlight,
      Patches of moss and lichen, the occasional
      Undergrowth of...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Nurture

      By Maxine Kumin
      From a documentary on marsupials I learn
      that a pillowcase makes a fine
      substitute pouch for an orphaned kangaroo.

      I am drawn to such dramas of animal rescue.
      They are warm in the throat. I suffer, the critic proclaims,
      from an overabundance of maternal genes.

      Bring...

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