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In the Water-Butt

Ezra Pound

Issue 100, Summer-Fall 1986

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    • John Ash

      The Monuments

    • Robert Bringhurst

      Sunday Morning

    • Harold Brodkey

      On First Being Published

    • Raymond Carver

      Sleeping

    • Raymond Carver

      Hope

    • Amy Clampitt

      Dorothy and William at Rydal Mount

    • Alfred Corn

      Apartment on 22nd St.

    • Douglas Crase

      Theme Park

    • Carlos Drummond de Andrade

      Song for That Man of the People Charlie Chaplin

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      Spring-Shock

    • Tom Disch

      MCMLXXXIV

    • Jonathan Galassi

      Lateness

    • Jim Gauer

      Will This Thought Do?

    • Allen Ginsberg

      Quatrains

    • Jorie Graham

      Description

    • Linda Gregg

      Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live

    • Barbara Guest

      The View from Kandinsky’s Window

    • Anthony Hecht

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    • John Hollander

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    • Lawrence Joseph

      London

    • James Laughlin

      A Night at the Opera

    • David Lehman

      Enigma Variations

    • William Logan

      The Imitative Fallacy

    • Christopher Logue

      Walking

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      A Room at the Heart of Things

    • Czeslaw Milosz

      Lauda

    • Howard Nemerov

      The War in the Air

    • Sharon Olds

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    • Ron Padgett

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    • Molly Peacock

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    • Robert Pinsky

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    • Katha Pollitt

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