December 1955
- Allen Mandelbaum
- John Ashbery
- Edwin Burrows
- Paul Claudel
- Rachel Crown
From this Issue
Poem
Going up the river, or down, their tuneless look
Is of men grown poorer who, though ageing, wear
Some majesty of the commonplace. Old barges
Are cousin to those whom poverty becomes—
To late November, the north, nightfall, all the
Deprived whom increment of loss...
Is of men grown poorer who, though ageing, wear
Some majesty of the commonplace. Old barges
Are cousin to those whom poverty becomes—
To late November, the north, nightfall, all the
Deprived whom increment of loss...
Table of Contents
Pages from Nine Books
Four Poems
- John Ashbery
- Alfred Kreymborg
- Arnold Weinstein
- Edwin Gladding Burrows
- David Wright
- Theodore Weiss
- Henry W. Rago
- Allen Mandelbaum
- Richard Wilbur
- Howard Nemerov
- Hugh Kenner
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