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December 1997

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

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Neal Bowers
Christopher Buckley
Maria Cariño
Kelly Cherry
Creech

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Table of Contents

Poetry

David Wagoner
- The Silence of the Stars
Charles Simic
- The Mystic Life
Christopher Buckley
- Concerning Paradise
Sandra M. Gilbert
- November Afternoon
Paul Kane
- Variations on a Stanza by Longfellow
Ronald Wallace
- Pleasure
Robert Gibb
- Quatrains for a Christmas Bear
J. D. McClatchy
- Under Hydra
Carl Dennis
- Bibles and Driveways
- At the Dock
Morri Creech
- Prayer to My Living Father
- Testament
Grant Flint
- Making God
Richard Kenney
- 0,1
Maria Luisa A. Cariño
- The Other Annunciation
Kelly Cherry
- Study for an Annunciation
Linda Pastan
- The Islands
- Night Falls on Nantucket Sound
X J Kennedy
- "The Purpose of Time Is To Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
Neal Bowers
- Duration
John Hollander
- An Afterward
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Now the Good Minute Goes
Jon Loomis
- Last Days
David Ricks
- Landscape, After Ruisdael

Comment

Robert B. Shaw
- Prufrock Redivivus

Contributors
- - David Wagoner
  - Charles Simic
  - Christopher Buckley
  - Sandra M. Gilbert
  - Paul Kane
  - Ronald Wallace
  - Robert Gibb
  - J. D. McClatchy
- - Carl Dennis
  - Morri Creech
  - Grant Flint
  - Richard Kenney
  - Maria Luisa A. Cariño
  - Kelly Cherry
  - Linda Pastan
  - X J Kennedy
- - Neal Bowers
  - John Hollander
  - Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  - Jon Loomis
  - David Ricks
  - Robert B. Shaw