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July 1997

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

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Billy Collins
Robert Cording
Tom Disch
Dan Gerber
Carmen Giménez-Roselló

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Table of Contents

Poetry

David Wagoner
Elton Glaser
- Midnight at the Club Imaginaire
William Matthews
- THE PLACE ON THE CORNER
- THE TEMPO ROOM
Martha Greenwald
- Edward Hopper Watching The Petrified Forest, 1936
Tom Disch
- HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
Fatima Lim-Wilson
- CASTING CALL
Andrew Hudgins
Carmen Giménez-Roselló
- TREE, TREE, TREE
Dan Gerber
- IN THE STILL NIGHT
- TARAWA
Robert Cording
- NARCISSUS
George Scarbrough
- The Hummingbird
- The Garden
William Logan
- FLAMINGOES
- ACHILLES
Billy Collins
- SERPENTINE
Kay Ryan
- DON'T LOOK BACK
Yusef Komunyakaa
- BLESSING THE ANIMALS
Delisa Mulkey
- A HISTORY OF SILK
John Haag
- Footnotes from the Book of Nature

Comment

Paul Breslin
- Four and a Half Books

Contributors
- - David Wagoner
  - Elton Glaser
  - William Matthews
  - Martha Greenwald
  - Tom Disch
  - Fatima Lim-Wilson
- - Andrew Hudgins
  - Carmen Giménez-Roselló
  - Dan Gerber
  - Robert Cording
  - George Scarbrough
  - William Logan
- - Billy Collins
  - Kay Ryan
  - Yusef Komunyakaa
  - Delisa Mulkey
  - John Haag
  - Paul Breslin