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October 1982

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

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John Bayley
John Nims
A. Ammons
John Ciardi
Dorothy Donnelly

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1982

Table of Contents

A. R. Ammons
John Ciardi
- Mutterings
Dorothy Donnelly
- Faces
Rita Dove
- Flirtation
Anthony Hecht
Daryl Hine
- Sapphics
- Window or Wall
James Merrill
- The Blue Grotto
- After the Ball
Howard Nemerov
Pattiann Rogers
- The Doctrine
David Wagoner
- Their Bodies
Richard Wilbur
- Hamlen Brook

Comment

Helen Hennessy Vendler
- Spheres and Ragged Edges

Contents

John Bayley
- Contemporary British Poetry: A Romantic Persistence?

Contributors
- - A. R. Ammons
  - John Ciardi
  - Dorothy Donnelly
  - Rita Dove
  - Anthony Hecht
- - Richard Wilbur
  - Helen Hennessy Vendler
  - John Bayley