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January 1961

 
  • James Merrill
  • Nancy Hale
  • John Ciardi
  • Thomas Ferril
  • Pauline Hanson
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The Tutelar of the Place

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Stars

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Sierra Kid

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Table of Contents

  • David Jones
    • The Tutelar of the Place
  • Pauline Hanson
    • Stars
  • Philip Levine
    • Sierra Kid
    • For Fran
  • Raymond Souster
    • Man with the Mouth-Organ
    • Riel, 16 Novembre, 1885
    • The Last Mile
    • Michle Lalonde, Reading
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • Two Poets by the Lake
    • To a Visiting Poet in a College Dormitory
    • Not Writing Poems about Children
  • Thomas Hornsby Ferril
    • The Children Are Coming Slowly up the Stairs
  • John Ciardi
    • Love Poem
    • Launcelot in Hell
    • Dragons
    • Divorced, Husband Demolishes House
    • The Bird in Whatever Name
    • Everywhere That Universe
Comment
  • Thom Gunn
    • Certain Traditions
    • Collected Poems, by J. C. Squire
    • The Prodigal Son, by James Kirkup
    • Collected Poems, by William Plomer
    • Ballad of the Mari Lwyd and Cypress and Acacia, by Vernon Watkins
    • The Forests of Lithuania, by Donald Davie
    • Lupercal, by Ted Hughes
Contents
  • Nancy Hale
    • The Other Side of the Cove
  • James Merrill
    • Robert Bagg: A Postscript
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ciardi
  • Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  • Thom Gunn
  • Nancy Hale
  • Pauline Hanson
  • David Jones
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Philip Levine
  • James Merrill
  • Raymond Souster
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