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Workshop by Lee Byron Jennings establishes this number’s particular register. Named forms such as Song for a child at the death of a cat sit beside looser lyrics, so the issue’s variety comes through line, stanza, and rhythm rather than editorial display. The movement toward To Jeffrey Miller gives the number a clear closing direction while leaving its voices distinct. Across 33 poems, formal interest lies in the changes of scale: short, image-driven pieces give way to longer fields of syntax, and each new opening resets the relation between line, breath, and page. The variety reflects the Venice workshop culture around the publication, where experimental practice was less a house style than a shared willingness to let voice, spacing, and sequence determine form.
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- Workshop — Lee Byron Jennings [Poem]
- The soldier with his head shot off — Lee Byron Jennings [Poem]
- From the Neanderthal Camp — Lee Byron Jennings [Poem]
- Friends — Lee Byron Jennings [Poem]
- Cormorant — Joseph Hansen [Poem]
- Victim — Joseph Hansen [Poem]
- You infest my life like vermin — Joseph Hansen [Poem]
- By way of explanation — Joe Bransford [Poem]
- The creatures — John Harris [Poem]
- Deathwatch — John Harris [Poem]
- 13 ways of looking at a Blastbird — John Haag [Poem]
- I — A variation on "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens [Poem]
- Song for a child at the death of a cat — S. B. Melly [Poem]
- Letter to a future son — James Krusoe [Poem]
- To the Monument for the Workers — James Krusoe [Poem]
- Sunday already — Donald E. Winters, Jr [Poem]
- Two ways of looking at May — Ruth Wire [Poem]
- Burnt offering — Ruth Wire [Poem]
- Poem — Stephen A. Canada [Poem]
- For Eliot — David Mark Dashev [Poem]
- These darknesses — A. P. Russo [Poem]
- avigny — Jack Hirschman [Poem]
- Storm — Jane E. Newton [Poem]
- Fertility rite — Andrew Salmins & Jane Newton-Salmins [Poem]
- The bureaucrat — Andrew Valdemar Salmins [Poem]
- Inmate — Anne Marie Ross [Poem]
- Hands — Lynn Henry Shoemaker [Poem]
- Fantasy of the green bears — Lynn Henry Shoemaker [Poem]
- The hunt — Lynn Henry Shoemaker [Poem]
- The tell-tale heart — Lynn Henry Shoemaker [Poem]
- lacquered — Susan St. Louis [Poem]
- Loss among the honkies, — S. S. Veri [Poem]
- To Jeffrey Miller — John Harris [Poem]
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*Beyond Baroque*, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1970. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.