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January 1955

 
  • Edith Sitwell
  • Robert Graves
  • Robert Dana
  • Joanne De Longchamps
  • Pierre de Ronsard
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Ode to Walt Whitman

Translated By Ben Belitt
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I Dreamt the Negro, Beautiful as Night

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Elegy upon a Certificate of Birth

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Table of Contents

  • Federico García Lorca
    • Ode to Walt Whitman
  • Peter B. Walsh
    • I Dreamt the Negro, Beautiful as Night
  • Ben Maddow
    • Elegy upon a Certificate of Birth
  • Robert Patrick Dana
    • My Glass Brother
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
    • The Lion
  • James Wright
    • A Presentation of Two Birds to My Son
Three Sonnets of Ronsard
  • Pierre de Ronsard
    • Comme On Voit sur la Branche
    • Estre Indigent
    • Je Faisois ces Sonnets
  • Joanne De Longchamps
    • Idyll
  • Stanley Moss
    • The Hangman
  • Allen Kanfer
    • Jacob
Two Poems
  • Neil Weiss
    • Lily
    • The Hike
  • Philip Murray
    • Firefly: A Japanese Romance
Three Poems
  • Galway Kinnell
    • Across the Brown River
    • Lilacs
    • Alewives Pool
Two Poems
  • W. S. Merwin
    • Bear
    • Camel
Four Poems
  • Herbert Morris
    • The North of Wales
    • Terrain
    • Les Parapluies: Renoir
    • The Rocks
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Problems in Faithfulness and Fashion
  • Robert Graves
    • T. S. Eliot's Voice and His Voices: III
  • David Wagoner
    • Moss's Second Volume
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robert Patrick Dana
  • Joanne De Longchamps
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Robert Graves
  • Allen Kanfer
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Federico García Lorca
  • Ben Maddow
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Herbert Morris
  • Stanley Moss
  • Philip Murray
  • David Wagoner
  • Peter B. Walsh
  • Neil Weiss
  • James Wright
  • Pierre de Ronsard
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