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October 1974

 
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • J. McClatchy
  • James McMichael
  • James Merrill
  • John Ormond
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Twelve Poems for Cavafy

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Boundaries

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Sext

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Table of Contents

  • Yannis Ritsos
    • Twelve Poems for Cavafy
  • John Ormond
    • Boundaries
  • James McMichael
    • Sext
    • Nones
    • Vespers
    • He Finds the Mansion
  • Stephen Yenser
    • Common Property
    • Intensive Care
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • The Pleasure of Ruins
    • A Poem Is a Cafe
  • Lawrence Raab
    • The Night of the Statues
  • Geoffrey Grigson
    • Television To-Night
    • Two A.M. In the Archipelago
    • Angles and Circles
  • James Merrill
    • The Will
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  • Jerome J. McGann
    • The Importance of Being Ordinary
    • Steeplejacks in Babel, by Turner Cassity
    • Departures, by Donald Justice
    • Gold Country, by Shirley Kaufman
    • No Vacancies in Hell, by Daniel Mark Epstein
    • Breaking Open, by Muriel Rukeyser
    • The Page-Turner, by David Shapiro
  • James Atlas
    • Preferences
CONTRIBUTORS
  • James Atlas
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Jerome J. McGann
  • James McMichael
  • James Merrill
  • John Ormond
  • Lawrence Raab
  • Yannis Ritsos
  • Stephen Yenser
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