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Summer 1985 • Vol. VII No. 3 • Book Reviews |

The Livelier Art

By Peter Stitt

Icehouse Lights By David Wojahn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. 69 pages. $9.95; $4.95, paper.

Fire in the Conservatory by Linda Gregerson. Seattle: Dragon Gate, 1982. 65 pages. $13.00; $6.00, paper.

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The Typical Poem

By Peter Stitt

The Mural of Wakeful Sleep by Laurence Lieberman. New York: Macmillan, 1985. 110 pp. $16.95, $8.95 paper.Assumptions by Marilyn Hacker. New York: Knopf, 1985, 92 pp. $8.95 paper. Already have […]

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