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January 1980

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

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J. McClatchy
William Pritchard
Ernst Pöppel
Stephen Dobyns
Sandra Gilbert

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1980

Table of Contents

William E. Stafford
R. G. Vliet
Josephine Jacobsen
- Border
Francis Coleman Rosenberger
- Are You Just Back for a Visit or Are You Going to Stay?
Lorrie Goldensohn
Gary Miranda
- Salmon Ladder at the Government Locks, Seattle
- Still Lifes: Hoh Rain Forest
Sandra M. Gilbert
- My Grandmother in Paris
Elizabeth Macklin
- Leaving One of the State Parks after a Family Outing
Bruce Guernsey
- Back Road
Stephen Dobyns
David Wagoner
William Butler Yeats
- The Watch-Fire

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Contents

William H. Pritchard
- MacLeish Revisited
J. D. McClatchy
- Setting the Hard Tasks

Contributors
- - William E. Stafford
  - R. G. Vliet
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Francis Coleman Rosenberger
  - Lorrie Goldensohn
  - Gary Miranda
- - Sandra M. Gilbert
  - Elizabeth Macklin
  - Bruce Guernsey
  - Stephen Dobyns
  - David Wagoner
  - William Butler Yeats
- - Ernst Pöppel
  - Peter Stitt
  - William H. Pritchard
  - J. D. McClatchy