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October 1959

 
  • Kate Casey
  • Robert Duncan
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Paul Engle
  • Roy Marz
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Light from Above

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The Children

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Ballad of the Mermaid of Zennor

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Table of Contents

  • Richard Eberhart
    • Light from Above
    • The Blue Grains
    • The Spider
    • A Testament
    • Late Summer
    • Riches
  • Roy Marz
    • The Children
    • The Blue Tablecloth
    • Targets
  • Vernon Watkins
    • Ballad of the Mermaid of Zennor
    • Zennor Cottages
Some Poems from Japan
  • John Tagliabue
    • Sleepy Standing in the Sunny Windy Kokubunji Station
    • In Various Alleys Zig Zagging with Dilapidated and Sometimes Squeaking Bicycles Does Not the Buddha Spirit Surprise Us?
    • "The Fact Is the Sweetest Dream That Labor Knows": Robert Frost
    • An Old Chinese Zen Traveller Often Depicted in Sumi-E Carrying a Large Dim White Bag like a Light Cloud
  • Harry Strickhausen
    • Gemini
  • Kate Casey
    • Ode
    • In Poems
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
    • The Graiae
    • Sunday in the Laboratory
    • The Visible Moments
  • Paul Engle
    • A Dedication
    • The Sound of Red
  • Robert Duncan
    • Food for Fire, Food for Thought
    • Under Ground
    • Bone Dance
    • Returning to Roots of First Feeling
Comment
  • Hugh Kenner
    • For Other Voices
  • John Hollander
    • Robert Lowell's New Book
  • Marie Ponsot
    • Careful Sorrow and Observed Compline
  • Ned O'Gorman
    • A Solitude
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Edward Thomas
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kate Casey
  • Robert Duncan
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Paul Engle
  • John Hollander
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Roy Marz
  • Ned O'Gorman
  • Marie Ponsot
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
  • Harry Strickhausen
  • John Tagliabue
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • Vernon Watkins
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