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December 1953

 
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • Cid Corman
  • John Gill
  • Robert Horan
  • Allen Kanfer
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Oiseaux Tristes

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Already Ripening Barberries Are Red

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The Word and the Fish

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Marvin Solomon
    • Oiseaux Tristes
    • The Pigeons
    • The Animal
    • Shutters
  • V. R. Lang
    • Already Ripening Barberries Are Red
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • The Word and the Fish
  • Allen Kanfer
    • Moses
  • E. L. Mayo
    • The Word of Water
  • Cid Corman
    • Backtalk from the Minotaur
  • John J. Gill
    • Traffic
  • Donald Petersen
    • The Stages of Narcissus
  • Galway Kinnell
    • The Wolves
  • Robert Horan
    • Triumph of Icarus
Opinion
  • Archibald MacLeish
    • Marianne Moore: Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads
Reviews
  • Philip Ferguson Legler
    • Marianne Moore and the Idea of Freedom
  • Parker Tyler
    • The Ambiguous Axe
  • John McCormick
    • The Women
  • Harry Roskolenko
    • The Shadow Is Not the Rose
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Cid Corman
  • John J. Gill
  • Robert Horan
  • Allen Kanfer
  • Galway Kinnell
  • V. R. Lang
  • Philip Ferguson Legler
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • E. L. Mayo
  • John McCormick
  • Donald Petersen
  • Harry Roskolenko
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Marvin Solomon
  • Parker Tyler
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