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March 1954

 
  • Donald Finkel
  • Don Geiger
  • W. Merwin
  • Marianne Moore
  • John Nims
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Book FIve: XIII: The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs

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The Alphabet

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Of All the Ways to Die

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Table of Contents

More Fables from la Fontaine
  • Marianne Moore
    • Book FIve: XIII: The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs
    • Book Six: VII: The Dog Who Dropped Substance for Shadow
    • Book Twelve: XVI: The Woods and the Woodman
  • Karl Shapiro
    • The Alphabet
Three New Poets
  • Donald Finkel
    • Of All the Ways to Die
  • Don Geiger
    • Speed of Sound
  • Hollis Summers
    • The Lawnmower
  • W. S. Merwin
    • Spider
Three Poems
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Decline and Fall
    • Etruscan Tomb
    • The Young Ionia
Reviews
  • William Jay Smith
    • The Legacy of Laforgue
  • Harry Duncan
    • In Service of Innocence
  • Cid Corman
    • A Requisite Commitment
  • Eda Lou Walton
    • Younger Voices
  • Edward Dahlberg
    • Lawrentian Analects
  • Babette Deutsch
    • The Waste Remains
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Some Elders
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Cid Corman
  • Edward Dahlberg
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Harry Duncan
  • Donald Finkel
  • Don Geiger
  • Hugh Kenner
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Marianne Moore
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Karl Shapiro
  • William Jay Smith
  • Hollis Summers
  • Eda Lou Walton
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