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Front matter

The domain of the marvelous prey
Charles Simic

Event: corrective: cure
A. R. Ammons

The candle in the pitcher
John Hollander

Lives we keep wanting to know
Philip Booth

Living the layers of time
Stanley Kunitz

Meeting ourselves in the other
Edwin Honig

Answering the dark
David Ignatow

Magic: power: activation: transformation
Michael S. Harper

Before the beginning
Donald Finkel

The boat
Donald Finkel

Buck fever
David Wagoner

Duck-blind
David Wagoner

An address to Weyerhaeuser, the tree-growing company
David Wagoner

Six o'clock
William Stafford

At Leceaux
William Stafford

A review of Arthur Koestler's the watershed, a life of Kepler
William Stafford

First prison
Charles Simic

Traveling shows
A. R. Ammons

The gray lake
Dick Allen

No more sad songs
Dick Allen

Mystical leanings
Dick Allen

Mystery
Joan Grayston

On a skull carved in crystal
John Haines

Forest without leaves
John Haines

All summer long
Carol Frost

Accident
Nick Bozanic

In the clearing
Roberta Metz

Lunar eclipse
Ellen Levine

You who are literal
Linda Pastan

Ice fishing
Ronald Wallace

Endocrinologist
Peter Wild

Astronomers
Peter Wild

Preparings
Paul Ramsey

The summit: Montdesu
John Hollander

Below Mount Zion
Edwin Honig

From the bare cupboard
Edwin Honig

Via spaceship through Saskatchewan
Turner Cassity

Wind subsides on the earth river
Fred Chappell

West Point hotel
Kenneth Rosen

Perfect attendance
Ron McFarland

Message on a sea wall
Carol Oles

The subway
Lewis Turco

In the order of disappearance
Samuel Hazo

The toys
Samuel Hazo

Lady Macaque, of Koshima
Michael G. Cooke

The militance of the photograph in the passbook of a Bantu under detention
Michael S. Harper

A psychology lab, America, 1978
Gracie Mattern

Loss of bone
Ron Slate

Eye
Brian Swan

The old woman
Constance Urdang

The room
Wesli Court

Shrikes
Myra Shapiro

The cripple's woman
Nancy Eimers

You might well remember Willie Cinnamon
Floyd Skloot

Transparent dwellings of the self (Wallace Stevens)
Beth A. Casey

The route
Thomas Reiter

The bees
Marilyn Hayes

Freshening
Marilyn Hayes

The firehouse
Marilyn Hayes

Dining room in the country
Ron Atkinson

From the second story window of an abandoned house
Susan Hand Shetterly

The barn
Susan Hand Shetterly

As if to light
Susan Hand Shetterly

The headwaters of the family
John Glowney

Grandfather
John Glowney

Promise
John Glowney

The green land
John Glowney

A gesture resembling prayer
John Glowney

In the story of the same name
Lawrence Raab

Tonight is the epic night of the world: Ashbery's houseboat days
Charles Berger

David Ignatow: The craft of the "I"
Bernetta Quinn