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December 1996

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

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Katherine Anderson
Robert Cording
Carl Dennis
Tom Disch
Faye George

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Table of Contents

W. S. Merwin
James Gurley
- BIOSOPHY, AN OPTIMIST'S MANIFESTO
Greg Pape
- IMAGE ON A SANDSTONE DISC
Carl Dennis
- TWO GODS
Tom Disch
- WHAT ELSE IS THERE
Paul Du Bois Jacobs
- WINTERING AT THE END OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Anne Reynolds Voegtlen
- STE.-CHAPELLE
Katherine Lucas Anderson
- ANNUNCIATION
Linda Pastan
- LETTER
- The Obligation to Be Happy
Faye George
- THE SUDDEN TUG OF THE FAMILIAR
Sharon Olds
- SLEEP SUITE
J. T. Ledbetter
- MY FATHER'S VOICE
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
- EVENING STAR
Robert Cording
- SELF-PORTRAIT

Contents

Contributors
- - W. S. Merwin
  - James Gurley
  - Greg Pape
  - Carl Dennis
  - Tom Disch
  - Paul Du Bois Jacobs
- - Anne Reynolds Voegtlen
  - Katherine Lucas Anderson
  - Linda Pastan
  - Faye George
  - Sharon Olds
  - J. T. Ledbetter
- - Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
  - Robert Cording
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Leslie Ullman