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April 1956

 
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Donna Bowen
  • Judson Crews
  • Alan Dugan
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
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For Her Who Carried My Child

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The Branches of Water or Desire

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Sea Changes

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • James Wright
    • For Her Who Carried My Child
    • A Little Girl on Her Way to School
    • A Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name
    • Where the Plump Spider Sways to Rest
Three Poems
  • Alan Dugan
    • The Branches of Water or Desire
    • Portrait
    • Landfall
Five Poems
  • Richmond Lattimore
    • Sea Changes
    • Marginals
    • Leilah
    • Landscape with Story
    • Note on the L and N
Two Poems
  • Judson Crews
    • The Artist
    • Sole the Fabled Dim Recess
Two Poems
  • Paul Petrie
    • Superseded Love Letters
    • Fathers and Sons
  • Leonard Wolf
    • The Yewberry
  • Jon Silkin
    • White
  • Donna Bowen
    • Return of the Lover
  • Don Geiger
    • Aunt Mabel
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
    • Death and the Maiden
Two Poems
  • Melvin Walker La Follette
    • Portage
    • Lake Beaver
Six Poems
  • Sydney Goodsir Smith
    • The Muse in Rose Street
    • Mareeld
    • Granton
    • Cokkils
    • The Jungfrau in Season Bricht Wi Eternal Whiteness Is Natheless Raped by the Buits O a Cloud O Witness
    • The Grace O God and the Meth Drinker
Opinion
  • Tom Scott
    • Some Poets of the Scottish Renaissance
  • W. S. Merwin
    • Without the Reality of Music
  • John Berryman
    • The Long Way to MacDiarmid
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Berryman
  • Donna Bowen
  • Judson Crews
  • Alan Dugan
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Don Geiger
  • Melvin Walker La Follette
  • Richmond Lattimore
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Paul Petrie
  • Tom Scott
  • Jon Silkin
  • Sydney Goodsir Smith
  • Leonard Wolf
  • James Wright
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