Description
The Spring 1984 issue, guest edited by Seamus Heaney, features poetry by David Weiss, Emily Wheeler, and more. Cover art by Rachel Giese.
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Editor's Introduction
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Contributor's Notes
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Contributors’ Notes
Staff
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Nonfiction
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The Poet in an Age of Distraction
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Poetry
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Big Bang
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Back Country Possibilities
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This is how I remember you
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Grey Fox
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Waitress at a Window
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Punishment
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Stunned Silence
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What a Clever Design
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At Yalta
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Oops!
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Sitting
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from The Conversation With Dante
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The Eavesdropper
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Olive
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Odalisque With Little Red Coffer
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Blunt Trauma
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Portrait of an Aristocrat
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Like Garlic
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At the Vision Center
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The Story of the White Cup
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School Dream
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The Empty Nest Ghazal
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The Poem as a Deconstructed Car (from Hot Songs For Motown)
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Survivors
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Black Fire
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Fathers and Sons
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Robin
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A Small Rain
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Proof
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To Janey, Address Unknown
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Nineteen
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The Sound Magician
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The Indian Mayor in Guatemala
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Quiet and Getting Quieter
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Name-Dropping Stars
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Birding the Battle of Attu
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West Virginia Handicrafts
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How To Be Angry
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Consort
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Living on Air
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The Ballad of Fighting With My Father
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The Falling
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April: First Movement
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The Birds
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Daybreak
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Two Songs of the Earth
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The Miraculous Mandarin
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Cameras
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The Bottom Line
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As Gentle As a Lamb
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Mythology
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Lapsing
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Breath
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Walking With The Pig
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Learning Distrust
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To Be Human
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Town Dump
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Forsythia
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Pike Certificate
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89.
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The Fortune Teller
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The Blue Chair
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Herta
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Poem Catching Up With An Idea
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An Easy Death
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Dear
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A Child Explains Dying
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Jack, the Following Summer
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Painting of a Woman With Vines
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The House of My Birth
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That Time, That Country
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A Little Cloud
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Quaker Oats
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Detasseling Corn
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Okabe: Mount Utsu
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Arai: Ferry Boats
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Essay on the Personal
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Direction
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Rooms By The Sea
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Venus Beats All
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Blackout Holiday
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Rural Mailbox
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Beachplums
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US Signal Corps Footage
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Personal History
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Lunch Break On The Edge of Town
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Late August
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Misery in the World
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from The Sleeping Sonnets
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Belfast
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Last Visit, Elizabeth
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The Wild Canaries on a Twenty-Mile Stretch of Highway
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Catbirds
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The Way to Moriah
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After the Wars
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Pots and Pans
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What Wrong Is
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Radiofaria: On a Drawing by Ernst Haeckel
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In The House On The Edge Of The Railroad Flats
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136. The Man Who Found a Horseshoe
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Mushrooming on Olema Ridge
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Need
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Identification
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The Twins
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Upon an Eunuch: A Poet
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Reading Jane Austen at 3 A.M.
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Flamingos
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Swan Song
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A Scholar Gazing at a Flight of Birds
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