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December 1956

 
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • James Dickey
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Samuel Morse
  • Wallace Stevens
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Tramontana

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Sincerity

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Pater Noster in Winter

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Barbara Howes
    • Tramontana
    • A Lullaby
    • The Triumph of Time
    • Delivery Room
  • Thomas Merton
    • Sincerity
Two Poems
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • Pater Noster in Winter
    • L'Apres-Midi d'un Homme
  • James L. Dickey
    • The Father's Body
  • James Laughlin
    • How Fortunate
  • Anthony Ostroff
    • Elegy
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
    • Three Orpheus Songs
  • Joanne De Longchamps
    • Delivered from a Heaviness of Love
Three Poems
  • Francis Jammes
    • Il Va Neiger...
    • Quand Verrai-je les Iles
    • L'Ane Savant (Tr. by L. L. Lee)
Two Poems
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • The Ungrateful Garden
    • The Intruder
  • Jean Clower
    • The Woman
Three Poems
  • Howard Levant
    • The Pious Squire Regrets His Year's Sins of Lust
    • Pleasures of the Imagination
    • Connection in October
  • Allen Grossman
    • Trucks
Two Poems
  • Edwin Gladding Burrows
    • The Sound of Love
    • Uncles
  • John Ciardi
    • Some Figures for Who I Am
Comment
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Some Poets on Their Travels
  • Samuel French Morse
    • Five Young English Poets
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Edwin Gladding Burrows
  • John Ciardi
  • Jean Clower
  • Joanne De Longchamps
  • James L. Dickey
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Allen Grossman
  • Barbara Howes
  • Francis Jammes
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • James Laughlin
  • Howard Levant
  • Thomas Merton
  • Samuel French Morse
  • Anthony Ostroff
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Charles Tomlinson
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