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December 1959

 
  • Louis Coxe
  • Edward Dahlberg
  • John Engels
  • Harold Fleming
  • Gene Frumkin
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The Last Hero

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Five Poems

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From Bad Dreams

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Table of Contents

  • Louis O. Coxe
    • The Last Hero
  • Edward Dahlberg
    • Five Poems
  • Donald Justice
    • From Bad Dreams
    • Love's Map
  • Paul Petrie
    • Rites in October
    • The Sceptic Speaks to St. Simeon
    • Departure
  • G. Stanley Koehler
    • A Blue Day
    • Man Overboard
    • Encounter at Salerno
  • Harold Lee Fleming
    • The Farm
    • An Atmosphere
    • Rainbow, Rainbow
  • David Lougee
    • Mountain View
  • Gene Frumkin
    • Lament for an Old Pressman
  • John Engels
    • The Old Duke
  • Neil Weiss
    • Gulls
    • Friends
    • Letter Written Standing in a Train
  • Ronald Lee Perry
    • Winter Stanzas for Norma
    • The Chinese Horse
    • Sonnet XI ("Begins to emerge...")
    • Suite for Wind Instruments
    • Sonnet XIII ("I write as one...")
Comment
  • Andonis Decavalles
    • Two Views of Kazantzakis
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • A Romantic Failure
  • Elliott Coleman
    • The Sitwell Anthology
  • Vivian Mercier
    • Ovid and Sappho in Translation
  • Frederic Peachy
    • Recovering the Tragic Art
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Elliott Coleman
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • Edward Dahlberg
  • Andonis Decavalles
  • John Engels
  • Harold Lee Fleming
  • Gene Frumkin
  • Donald Justice
  • G. Stanley Koehler
  • David Lougee
  • Vivian Mercier
  • Frederic Peachy
  • Ronald Lee Perry
  • Paul Petrie
  • Neil Weiss
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