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November 1969

 
  • A. Hope
  • Chester Kallman
  • Marvin Bell
  • Michael Benedikt
  • Frederick Bock
Table of Contents

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Four Fragments

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Elegiacs

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My Face the Night

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Table of Contents

  • Henry W. Rago
    • Four Fragments
    • ("Lifted to my eyes...")
    • Some Letters About a Book
    • ("Haven: the time done...")
    • ("You,/Fair presence...")
  • Daryl Hine
    • Elegiacs
  • May Swenson
    • My Face the Night
    • I'll Be
    • Fire Island
    • The Beam
  • Denise Levertov
    • Invocation
    • Wings of a God
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • Robin Redbreast
    • The Game
    • The Mulch
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
    • Henry Rago
Four Psalms
  • Michael Benedikt
    • Psalm I
  • Daniel G. Hoffman
    • A Historian
    • A Special Train
    • Aphrodite
  • Larry Eigner
    • #292
  • Frederick Bock
    • Tomato Juice
    • Snow and Ice
  • Lisel Mueller
    • Sleepless
  • Marvin Bell
    • To the Sky
  • Leonard Cochran
    • On the Continuity of Deer, Falcons and Other Things
  • Richard Howard
    • May 26 1969: The Grievance
  • Hy Sobiloff
    • For Henry Rago
  • Robert Creeley
    • So Big
  • Galway Kinnell
    • The Shoes
  • Gary Snyder
    • The Hudsonian Curlew
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Moving In
  • Ralph J. Mills Jr.
    • For the Word, for the Silence
Contents
  • A. D. Hope
    • Correspondence
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Marvin Bell
  • Michael Benedikt
  • Frederick Bock
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Leonard Cochran
  • Robert Creeley
  • Larry Eigner
  • Daryl Hine
  • Daniel G. Hoffman
  • A. D. Hope
  • Richard Howard
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Denise Levertov
  • Ralph J. Mills Jr.
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Henry W. Rago
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Gary Snyder
  • Hy Sobiloff
  • May Swenson
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