From the Book - 1983-84 ed.
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
The end of the world / Thomas McGrath
The company we keep : self-making in imaginative art, old and new / Wayne C. Booth
Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher
The decimation before Phraata / Alan Dugan
Prayer for the dying / Willis Johnson
Those destroyed by success / William Dickey
Memories of unhousement, a memoir / Clark Blaise
How to write a poem / Gordon Lish
Persimmons / Li-Young Lee
Confederate graves in Little Rock / Richard Hugo
Quarrel / Ellen Bryant Voight
Graveyard day / Bobbie Ann Mason
The dishwasher / Robert McBrearty
The pond at dusk / Jane Kenyon
Sitting between two mirrors / James Baker Hall
from A sequence on Sidney Lanier / Andrew Hudgins
Summer, an elegy / Ellen Gilchrist
Notes on failure / Joyce Carol Oates
Marcus Garvey arrested at the 125th Street station / John Allman
The weaver / Ann Stanford
Samba de los agentes / Andrei Codrescu
Crane and Carlsen : a memoir (1926-1934) / Lincoln Kirstein
Carolyn at twenty / Patricia Dobler
The house that fear built : Warsaw, 1943 / Jane Flanders
Hidden justice / Gerald Stern
What literature means / Cynthia Ozick
A valediction / W.D. Snodgrass
I knew I'd sing / Heather McHugh
Remembering Titian's martyrdom of St. Lawrence / Jorie Graham
Robo-wash / Jean Davidson
The stench / Jillian Becker
Procession / Philip Booth
Lining up / Richard Howard
The longing / John Daniel
The time, the place, the loved one / Susan Welch
Avant-garde mastery / Thomas LeClair
Hamlen Brook / Richard Wilbur
The man of many L's / Maxine Kumin
Uncle Balt and the nature of being / William Gass
The reedbeds of the Hackensack / Amy Clampitt
Dream vision / Raymond Oliver
The desire and pursuit of the part / Henri Coulette
Being and Judaism / Oscar Mandel
That bright grey eye / Hilda Morely
Great-aunt Francesca / Joe-Anne McLaughlin
Indian boarding school : the runaways / Louise Erdrich
The eight stages of translation / Robert Bly
The woman who lives in the botanical gardens / Alexis De Veaux
Sapphics against anger / Timothy Steele
Tutka Bay, Alaska / Anita Wilkins.
