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April 1959

 
  • Beth Bentley
  • Etta Blum
  • Turner Cassity
  • René Char
  • Robert Creeley
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Canticle of the Columns

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Autumn

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The Hill

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Table of Contents

  • Paul Valéry
    • Canticle of the Columns
    • The Spinner
    • To the Plane Tree
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Autumn
  • Robert Creeley
    • The Hill
    • The Herd
    • The Door
    • A Gift of Great Value
    • My Love
    • The Names
    • Going to Bed
    • The Door (II)
  • John Hollander
    • Aristotle to Phyllis
  • Etta Blum
    • For Blake's Angels
  • David Galler
    • Fields of Flowers
    • In the Maze
  • Kenneth A. Lohf
    • Picasso at Vallauris
  • Beth Singer Bentley
    • Aspects of Venus
  • Allen Kanfer
    • We Wander in Each Other's Woods
    • Fear Is a Formal Matter
  • Frederick Morgan
    • Primary Notion
    • Epitaph ("What was unimportant...")
    • Epitaph ("Here where he lies...")
    • Poem ("Duck, riding the reservoir...")
  • Turner Cassity
    • Astrology
    • Haitian Endymion
    • The Coast at Grand Isle
    • The Lumber Baron
  • René Char
    • Companions in the Garden
Comment
  • James L. Dickey
    • A Gold-Mine of Consciousness
  • Alexander Craig
    • From Australia and New Zealand
  • Robert Duncan
    • Against Nature
  • Theodore Holmes
    • To Be Transformed
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Nightclub Catullus
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Beth Singer Bentley
  • Etta Blum
  • Turner Cassity
  • René Char
  • Alexander Craig
  • Robert Creeley
  • James L. Dickey
  • Robert Duncan
  • David Galler
  • John Hollander
  • Theodore Holmes
  • Allen Kanfer
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Kenneth A. Lohf
  • Frederick Morgan
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • Paul Valéry
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