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December 1989

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

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Wendy Barker
Laurie Blauner
Christopher Buckley
Alice Friman
Albert Goldbarth

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1989

Table of Contents

John Frederick Nims
- The Six-Cornered Snowflake
Alice Friman
- Stars
Sue Owen
- Total Darkness
- Written in Blood
Reg Saner
- How
- Meanwhile
Linda Pastan
Clare Rossini
- Ideology
Marcia L. Hurlow
- For the Linguist Doing Field Work
Laurie Blauner
- The Art of Translation
Albert Goldbarth
Bibhu Prasad Padhi
- Midnight Consolings
William Greenway
- Intensive Care
Wendy Barker
- Giving up the Dead
Reynolds Price
- The Resident Heron
- A Heron, a DeerA Single Day
Eric Pankey
- Memory of Heaven
Christopher Buckley
- Apologues of Winter Light

Short Reviews

Linda Gregerson

Contributors
- - John Frederick Nims
  - Alice Friman
  - Sue Owen
  - Reg Saner
  - Linda Pastan
  - Clare Rossini
- - Marcia L. Hurlow
  - Laurie Blauner
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Bibhu Prasad Padhi
  - William Greenway
  - Wendy Barker