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April 1957

Reed Whittemore
Hugh Kenner
Thom Gunn
Warren Hassmer
G. Koehler

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From this Issue

Poem

The Dark and the Fair

Poem

A Meditation on John Constable

Poem

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Table of Contents

Stanley Kunitz
Charles Tomlinson
Harold Witt
- Back
- Botanical Garden
William E. Stafford
- The Move to California
Herbert Morris
- A Shirt-Silk from Havana
- Prothalamium
Gil Orlovitz
- Art of the Sonnet: IX
Ernest Kroll
- Passing East of Hartford
G. Stanley Koehler
- New Construction: Bath Iron Works
- Peace and the Pacific
Robert Stock
- That the Sestina Is What It Is despite What It Is Not
Warren Hassmer
- Cloud of an Ancient Rage

Two Poems of Tu Fu

Du Fu
- Pounding the Clothes
- Farewell to My Soldier-Friend
Alva N. Turner
- Unmolested Beauty
Philip Levine
- Summer
Thom Gunn
- The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death
- Waking in a Newly-Built House, Oakland
William Jay Smith

Comment

Wallace Stevens
- From the "Adagia"
Samuel French Morse
- A Note on the "Adagia"
Kenneth Koch
- New Books by Marianne Moore and W. H. Auden
Reed Whittemore
- Three Reasons

CONTRIBUTORS

Du Fu
Thom Gunn
Warren Hassmer
Kenneth Koch
G. Stanley Koehler
Ernest Kroll
Stanley Kunitz
Philip Levine
Herbert Morris
Samuel French Morse
Gil Orlovitz
William Jay Smith
William E. Stafford
Wallace Stevens
Robert Stock
Charles Tomlinson
Alva N. Turner
Reed Whittemore
Harold Witt

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