September 1951

Paul Engle
Theodore Roethke
George Barker
Betty Davis
James Merrill

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Poem

From the magazine:
Sensibility! O La!

From the magazine:
The Octopus

There are many monsters that a glassen surface
Restrains. And none more sinister
Than vision asleep in the eye’s tight translucence.
Rarely it seeks now to unloose
Its diamonds. Having divined how drab a prison
The purest mortal tissue is,
Rarely it wakes. Unless, coaxed out...

September 1951

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poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Sensibility! O La!

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:The Octopus

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:E. & O. E.

Table of Contents

From the magazine:
Sensibility! O La!

From the magazine:
The Octopus

From the magazine:
E. & O. E.