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August 1955

 
  • Edouard Roditi
  • Gray Burr
  • Turner Cassity
  • Reuel Denney
  • Dorothy Donnelly
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Alexandrina

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The Hair-Brusher

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Advice to Lovers as Dancers

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • Dorothy Donnelly
    • Alexandrina
    • Perennial Landscape
    • Greek Coins
Fixer of Midnight, and Other Portraits
  • Reuel Denney
    • The Hair-Brusher
    • The Honest Retired Lodgter on the Porch
    • Tanager, with Tangerines
    • A Merchant of the Mart
    • Fixer of Midnight
Two Poems
  • Parker Tyler
    • Advice to Lovers as Dancers
    • Chez Cythera
  • Frederick Eckman
    • The Starlings
Four Poems
  • Donald Hall
    • Matter of Fact
    • Lycanthropy Revisited
    • Jamaica
    • Bamboo
  • John Barkley Hart
    • The Wife of the Superintendent of the Granaries
  • Merrill Moore
    • Deaconing Is an Honorable Persuasion
Two Poems
  • Paul Engle
    • Amagansett Beach
    • Sick
Two Poems
  • Turner Cassity
    • Chronology
    • Earrings for the Virgin
Three Poems
  • Gray Burr
    • A Glance at the Album
    • Lunar Tune
    • Meadow Remembered
Two Poems
  • Roy Marz
    • Boy Buried on Sunday
    • The Blind Man
Two Poems
  • Jean Garrigue
    • A Figure for J. V. Meer
    • Declamation after the Three Bears
Reviews
  • George H. Dillon
    • Style and the Many-Headed Beast
  • Reed Whittemore
    • Sense and/or Sensibility
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • Three Translations from the Classics
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Gray Burr
  • Turner Cassity
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • Reuel Denney
  • George H. Dillon
  • Dorothy Donnelly
  • Frederick Eckman
  • Paul Engle
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Donald Hall
  • John Barkley Hart
  • Roy Marz
  • Merrill Moore
  • Parker Tyler
  • Reed Whittemore
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