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October 1957

 
  • Edith Sitwell
  • Ben Belitt
  • Robert Dana
  • David De Jong
  • Peter Everwine
Table of Contents

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The Knowledge of Light

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The Dressmaker's Workroom

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The Janitor's Face

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Table of Contents

  • Henry W. Rago
    • The Knowledge of Light
    • The Attending
  • William Jay Smith
    • The Dressmaker's Workroom
    • At the Tombs of the House of Savoy
    • Love Birds
  • David Cornel De Jong
    • The Janitor's Face
    • There Is a Railroad Track
    • Preparing for a Love Nest on the Plains
Country Songs
  • Ben Belitt
    • Wasp and Windowscreen
    • A Stand of Pine
  • Robert Patrick Dana
    • For Sister Mary Apolline
  • Ronald Lee Perry
    • Cat Cay
    • Adagio for Jazz
  • Peter Everwine
    • Designs on a Point of View
  • Vernon Watkins
    • The Forge of the Solstice
    • The Mask of Winter
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Antecedents: A Homage and Valediction
Comment
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • French Chronicle: Recent Publications
  • Donald Justice
    • Sacred and Secular
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • Four English Poets
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Maturity and Responsibility
  • Donald Davie
    • Enigma
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Chapman Still Heard
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  • Peter Everwine
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  • Donald Justice
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Ronald Lee Perry
  • Henry W. Rago
  • William Jay Smith
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • Vernon Watkins
  • William Carlos Williams
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