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August 1988

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

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Anthony Hecht
Joan Aleshire
Wendy Barker
Joan Colby
Henri Cole

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1988

Table of Contents

J. D. McClatchy
- Fog Tropes
Henri Cole
- A Half-Life
Greg Johnson
- The Foreign Element
- Visiting the Sick
Joan Colby
- The Art of Dying
Steven Cramer
- The Hospitals
John Richard Reed
- Transported
- Treatment
James Solheim
- Roughing-in a House
- Echocardiogram
Wendy Barker
- Identifying Things
Roger Weingarten
- The Forever Bird
Judith McCombs
- Burden
Enid Shomer
- For Those Who Are No Longer Young
- Villa Maria
Molly Peacock
- The Dark
Wesley McNair
- The Revival
Peter Davison
- Mother & Child #3
Jayanta Mahapatra
- Another Hour's Bell
Joan Aleshire
- Healing
- Engrams
Celia Gilbert
Sandra M. Gilbert
Lorrie Goldensohn

Comment

Anthony Hecht
- Bringing Poems to Medical School Teaching: A Memoir

Contributors
- - J. D. McClatchy
  - Henri Cole
  - Greg Johnson
  - Joan Colby
  - Steven Cramer
  - John Richard Reed
  - James Solheim
- - Wendy Barker
  - Roger Weingarten
  - Judith McCombs
  - Enid Shomer
  - Molly Peacock
  - Wesley McNair
  - Peter Davison
- - Jayanta Mahapatra
  - Joan Aleshire
  - Celia Gilbert
  - Sandra M. Gilbert
  - Lorrie Goldensohn
  - Anthony Hecht