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May 1961

 
  • Henry Rago
  • Frederick Bock
  • Robert Creeley
  • David Daiches
  • Harold Fleming
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The Rescue

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Paradise Mislaid

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Table of Contents

  • Frederick Bock
    • The Sun of Poetry
    • Hymn to Reductive Thought
    • Ruin
  • Robert Creeley
    • The Rescue
    • For Love
  • David Daiches
    • Paradise Mislaid
    • Notes for a History of Poetry
  • Diane Wakoski
    • Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences
    • Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White
  • Galway Kinnell
    • The Homecoming of Emma Lazarus
  • Harold Lee Fleming
    • In This Fleshmill
  • Ronald Lee Perry
    • Le Quattro Stagioni
    • Lines for a Crucifix
  • David Galler
    • A Chronicle of the Flyer's Death
Comment
  • X J Kennedy
    • Five Poets in Search of Six Lines
    • Winter Sun, by Margaret Avison
    • Wilderness of Ladies, by Eleanor Ross Taylor
    • Walls and Distances, by David Galler
    • Outlanders, by Theodore Weiss
    • The Drunk in the Furnace, by W. S. Merwin
  • Vernon Watkins
    • Behind the Fabulous Curtain
Contents
  • Henry W. Rago
    • To Begin Our Fiftieth Year
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  • Frederick Bock
  • Robert Creeley
  • David Daiches
  • Harold Lee Fleming
  • David Galler
  • X J Kennedy
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Ronald Lee Perry
  • Henry W. Rago
  • Diane Wakoski
  • Vernon Watkins
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