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Issue 68, Winter 1976

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    • Sena Jeter Naslund

      The Animal Way to Love

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      The Age of Art

    • Ray Russell

      Two Amusettes

    • Ira Sadoff

      Seven Romances

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    • G. S. Sharat Chandra

      Rape of Lucrece Retold

    • Rita Dove

      Kentucky, 1833

    • Dean Faulwell

      Elegy for Maria

    • Philip Graham

      Three Poems

    • Aileen Grumbach

      Two Poems

    • Jeanne Hill

      The Jack Rabbit

    • Allan Kaplan

      Rehearsal of a Jazz Ballet in a Madrid Nightclub

    • Fredric Matteson

      Two Poems

    • Richard Pearse

      Two Poems

    • David Ray

      The First Time

    • David Romtvedt

      Pockets

    • Michael Sheridan

      Love Poem

    • William Stafford

      Two Poems

    • Joel Stein

      A Gift for You

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      The True Story of My Life

    • Richard Stull

      The Islands

    • John Updike

      Dutch Cleanser

    • F. Keith Wahle

      Two Poems

    • Charles Harper Webb

      Two Poems

    • Tom Weigel

      The Commissioner's House

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      Writing with the Radio On

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      The Red Sculpture

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