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October 1978

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

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T. Broughton
Brendan Galvin
Anthony Hecht
Edward Hirsch
Daniel Langton

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1978

Table of Contents

Anthony Hecht
- The Venetian Vespers
Gibbons Ruark
- The Goods She Can Carry: Canticle of Her Basket Made of Reeds
T. Alan Broughton
- Inhibition
- Happiness
- Loneliness
- Fear
- Grace
Daniel J. Langton
- First Things
- Again
Wes Magee
- On the Esplanade
Sharon Olds
- Ideographs
- The Guild
James J. McAuley
- Timepiece
Edward Hirsch
- How to Get Back to Chester
Elizabeth Spires
- Death Dress
- Globe
Brendan Galvin
- Stethoscope
- Tautog

Comment

Marvin Bell

Contributors
- - Anthony Hecht
  - Gibbons Ruark
  - T. Alan Broughton
  - Daniel J. Langton
- - Wes Magee
  - Sharon Olds
  - James J. McAuley
  - Edward Hirsch