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Poem
From the magazine:In the Cold Country
In the Cold Country
By Barbara Howes
We came so trustingly, for love, but these
Lowlands, flatlands, near beneath the sea
Point with their cautionary bones of sand
To exorcize, submerge us; we stay free
Only as mermaids glittering in the waves:
Mermaids of the imagination, young
A spring ago, who know our...
Lowlands, flatlands, near beneath the sea
Point with their cautionary bones of sand
To exorcize, submerge us; we stay free
Only as mermaids glittering in the waves:
Mermaids of the imagination, young
A spring ago, who know our...

Table of Contents
Six Poems
Two Poems
- Thomas Merton
- Henri Michaux
- William Abrahams
- Witter Bynner
- Vernon Scannell
Three Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
New Section
- Waldemar Hansen
Reviews
- Frank Jones
- Hayden Carruth
- Paul Goodman
- Ray Smith
- Francis C. Golffing
Theory and Analysis
- Edwin Honig
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