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September 1981

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

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Wendy Barker
T. Broughton
Alan Dixon
Albert Goldbarth
Alison Golembiewski

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1981

Table of Contents

Robert Morgan
Daryl Hine
- Vivid Season of Decay
Alison Golembiewski
- The Gold Pistol
Robert Beverley Ray
- The Aesthetics of Annotation
Roger Shattuck
- Street Scene
- Palimpsest
Rob Wilson
- Nothing
- Ananda Air, III
Jack Matthews
Brandon Kershner
- Dredging
Thomas P. Lynch
- The Old Dilemma
- A Death
Linda Pastan
- Extremities
- I Am Learning to Abandon the World
Anthony Mortimer
- Paraclausithyron
- Grace after Pears
Wendy Barker
- Exorcism of a Nightmare
T. Alan Broughton
- Hazards
- Landscape with Vanishing Point
Alan Dixon
- Taking Leave
- What Dignity Is Not
William L. Morris
- Every Poem Is Perfect
Albert Goldbarth

Comment

Mary Kinzie
- The Judge Is Rue

Contributors
- - Robert Morgan
  - Daryl Hine
  - Alison Golembiewski
  - Robert Beverley Ray
  - Roger Shattuck
  - Rob Wilson
- - Jack Matthews
  - Brandon Kershner
  - Thomas P. Lynch
  - Linda Pastan
  - Anthony Mortimer
  - Wendy Barker
- - T. Alan Broughton
  - Alan Dixon
  - William L. Morris
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Mary Kinzie