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March 1959

 
  • Tom Haber
  • A. Ammons
  • Margaret Avison
  • Kay Boyle
  • Warren Carrier
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An Academic Occasion

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Bedrock

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The Fountain

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Table of Contents

  • Alan Neame
    • An Academic Occasion
    • Correcting
    • Meeting
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Bedrock
    • The Birth of Venus
    • Depression
    • The Street
  • Barbara Gibbs
    • The Fountain
    • The Meeting-Place of the Colors
    • Lion
  • Margaret Avison
    • Prelude
  • Robert Duncan
    • A Storm of White
  • A. R. Ammons
    • Joshua Tree
    • Close-Up
    • Grassy Sound
  • Warren Carrier
    • Green I Walk
  • Kay Boyle
    • A Poem of Gratitude
  • Leonard E. Nathan
    • We Did the Best
    • Looking Down
    • Seated Lovers Quarreling at the River's Edge
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • A Muse of Water
    • Love Song
    • Plaint of the Poet in an Ignorant Age
Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot
Comment
  • John Hollander
    • I. A. Richards as Poet
  • Robert Creeley
    • "Her Service is Perfect Freedom"
  • Philip Levine
    • Three Poets
  • Donald Justice
    • The Unhappy Fate of the "Poetic"
  • Bruce Cutler
    • The Facts of Human Defeat
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Studies in Chinese Literature
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  • A. R. Ammons
  • Margaret Avison
  • Kay Boyle
  • Warren Carrier
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Robert Creeley
  • Bruce Cutler
  • Robert Duncan
  • Barbara Gibbs
  • John Hollander
  • Donald Justice
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Philip Levine
  • Leonard E. Nathan
  • Alan Neame
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • William Carlos Williams
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