October/November 1962

Conrad Aiken
Ben Belitt
John Berryman
Frederick Bock
Louise Bogan

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Love's Grammarians

The Hornet's House

("The greens of the Ganges...")

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Conrad Aiken
- Love's Grammarians
Ben Belitt
- The Hornet's House
John Berryman
- ("The greens of the Ganges...")
- Four Dream Songs
- ("Spellbound held subtle Henry...")
- ("Henry's pelt was put on...")
- ("The high ones die, die...")
Frederick Bock
- The Cows
Louise Bogan
- Night
- Morning
John Malcolm Brinnin
- Flight 539
Hayden Carruth
- Stanzas from the Reading Hour
John Ciardi
- Credibility
- Fast as You Can Count to Ten
- Death's the Classic Look
Louis O. Coxe
- Breaking the Barrier: The Base Commander Contemplates Time and Space
Robert Creeley
- The Invitation
E. E. Cummings
- Poem
J. V. Cunningham
- Love Letter
James L. Dickey
- Below Ellijay
Alan Dugan
- Fabrication of Ancestors
- From Heraclitus
- What the Hell, Rage, Give in to Natural Graces
Robert Duncan
- After a Passage in Baudelaire
Richard Eberhart
- The Struggle
- Dream Journey of the Head and Heart
- Hark Back
- Winter Kill
Paul Engle
- Venus and the Lute Player
- Etruscan Vase in Form of a Clock
- Hercules
Robert Fitzgerald
- ?????
Robert Frost
- The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics the Commentators Merely by Statistics
Robert Graves
- Ouzo Unclouded
Thom Gunn
- In the Tank
Barbara Howes
- A Conversation
- Dream of a Good Day
- At the Blue Mill Tavern
Randall Jarrell
- The One Who Was Different
- Field and Forest
- The Blind Man's Song
Kenneth Koch
- from Angelica: An Opera
Stanley Kunitz
- Three Floors
- After the Last Dynasty
Arnaut Daniel
- A Strict Lady Strictly Guarded
Denise Levertov
- Living with a Painting
- Another Spring
Robert Lowell
- Child's Song
- Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts
Hugh MacDiarmid
- Speech, My Beloved
William Meredith
- For His Father
- Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars
James Merrill
- The Mad Scene
W. S. Merwin
- Bread and Butter
- Before That
Rosalie Moore
- Poet as Bullfighter
Howard Moss
- The Silences
Howard Nemerov
- Idea
Charles Olson
- The Gulf of Maine
Elder James Olson
- Exhibition of Modern Art
William Plomer
- The Half-Recluse
Ezra Pound
- from From Canto Cxiii
Henry W. Rago
- The Promising
Kathleen Raine
- Nocturn
Kenneth Rexroth
- Air and Angels
Delmore Schwartz
- Apollo Musagete, Poetry, and the Leader of the Muses
Tom Scott
- In Handsel O Poetry's Fifty Light Years
Anne Sexton
- Somewhere in Africa
Karl Shapiro
- From "The Bourgeois Poet"
Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tu Fu's View of Fife
- Aurora Sluggart
William Jay Smith
- Northern Lights
Stephen Spender
- Journal Leaves
Charles Tomlinson
- Hill Walk
- On a Theme of Pasternak
Vernon Watkins
- Triads
Molière
- Tartuffe: Act Three
William Carlos Williams
- Stormy
James Wright
- Sitting in a Small Screen-House on a Summer Morning
Louis Zukofsky
- Atque in Perpetuum A.W.