September 1959
- Theodore Roethke
- Elise Asher
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- David De Jong
- Dorothy Donnelly
From this Issue
Poem
My father kept a speckled conch
By two bronze bookends of ships in sail,
And as I listened its cold teeth seethed
With voices of that ambiguous sea
Old Böcklin missed, who held a shell
To hear the sea he could not hear.
What the seashell...
By two bronze bookends of ships in sail,
And as I listened its cold teeth seethed
With voices of that ambiguous sea
Old Böcklin missed, who held a shell
To hear the sea he could not hear.
What the seashell...
Table of Contents
The Bean Eaters
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- John Montague
- Elise Asher
- D. J. Hughes
- James Reaney
- Felix N. Stefanile
- David Cornel De Jong
- Herbert Morris
- Howard Nemerov
Comment
- Wallace Fowlie
- Alan Neame
- Henry Birnbaum
- Hugh Kenner
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