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February 1988

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

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Philip Appleman
Michael Blumenthal
Raymond Carver
Stephen Corey
Richard Foerster

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1988

Table of Contents

Stephen Corey
- Complicated Shadows
Mark Jarman
- Days of '74

The Rest of My Life

May Swenson

David Ignatow
Richard Foerster
- Playland
Robley Wilson Jr.
- Company Cafeteria
Richard Howard
- Triangulations
Linda Pastan
- After an Absence
- Beauty Shop
Mona Van Duyn
- To a Friend Who Threw Away Hair Dyes
- Falling in Love at Sixty-Five
Michael C. Blumenthal
- The Pleasures of Old Age
Philip Schultz
- The Answering Machine
Raymond Carver
- Margo
Philip Appleman
- Heavenly Body

Comment

Linda Gregerson
- Short Reviews

Contributors
- - Stephen Corey
  - Mark Jarman
  - May Swenson
  - David Ignatow
  - Richard Foerster
- - Robley Wilson Jr.
  - Richard Howard
  - Linda Pastan
  - Mona Van Duyn
  - Michael C. Blumenthal