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- ↑ The American Poetry Review, Vol. 12, No. 4 (July/August 1983).
- ↑ "Love Poem", Antioch Review, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Winter, 1978), p. 81. (subscription required)
- ↑ The Paris Review, No. 78 (Summer 1980).
- ↑ Robert Louthan bibliography, Ploughshares.
