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July 1979

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

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John Ashbery
Christopher Buckley
Peter Davison
John Drury
James Hall

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1979

Table of Contents

John Ashbery
Elizabeth Spires
- At the Bambi Motel
Alicia Ostriker
James Baker Hall
David St. John
- The Boathouse
- The Avenues
Peter Davison
- July Meeting
Pattiann Rogers
- A Giant Has Swallowed the Earth for a Pill
- Synthesising the Word
Paul Smyth
- Poetics
Christopher Buckley
- The Letters of Summer
- Flowers
Peter Laurie
- On the Death of the Poet
Mark Perlberg
- When at Night
John Drury
- Decoys
Gerald Stern

Comment

Vernon Shetley
Michael Hamburger
- Music and Meaning

Contributors
- - John Ashbery
  - Elizabeth Spires
  - Alicia Ostriker
  - James Baker Hall
  - David St. John
- - Peter Davison
  - Pattiann Rogers
  - Paul Smyth
  - Christopher Buckley
  - Peter Laurie
- - Mark Perlberg
  - John Drury
  - Gerald Stern
  - Vernon Shetley
  - Michael Hamburger