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September 1973

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

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Sandra Gilbert
Albert Goldbarth
Andrew Hoyem
Maxine Kumin
James Merrill

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1973

Table of Contents

Muriel Rukeyser
Robert Stock
- Tight-Rope Construction Surrounded by a Thousand Sonnets
James Merrill
- Mc Kane's Falls
Anne Waldman
- Light & Shadow
Sandra M. Gilbert
- The Dream of Shooting Stars
- The Fog Dream
Susan Snively
- For a Painting of a Winter Barn
- Landing
Albert Goldbarth
- The Bittersweet Comfort of Motley Detail
Andrew Hoyem
John N. Morris
- Mystery Story
- The Companion
Karen Swenson
- Tide Pools in Deception Pass
Michael Ryan
- A Posthumous Poetics
Maxine Kumin
- The Knot
- The Selling of the Slaves
Marya Zaturenska

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Contributors
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Robert Stock
  - James Merrill
  - Anne Waldman
  - Sandra M. Gilbert
- - Susan Snively
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Andrew Hoyem
  - John N. Morris
  - Karen Swenson
- - Michael Ryan
  - Maxine Kumin
  - Marya Zaturenska
  - Robert B. Shaw
  - Richard Howard