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September 1959

 
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Elise Asher
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • David De Jong
  • Dorothy Donnelly
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Death of a Vermont Farm Woman

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Trio in a Mirror

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On the Decline of Oracles

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Table of Contents

  • Barbara Howes
    • Death of a Vermont Farm Woman
    • On Falling Asleep in a Mountain Cabin
    • The Triumph of Pride
    • The Triumph of Truth
  • Dorothy Donnelly
    • Trio in a Mirror
  • Sylvia Plath
    • On the Decline of Oracles
    • The Death of Myth-Making
    • A Lesson in Vengeance
  • Peter Redgrove
    • Woman in a Flowered Dress
    • From "Feeding-Pieces"
The Bean Eaters
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
    • Old Mary
    • We Real Cool
    • Strong Men, Riding Horses
    • The Bean Eaters
  • John Montague
    • Speech for an Ideal Irish Election
  • Elise Asher
    • Sickbed
  • D. J. Hughes
    • Kokoro
  • James Reaney
    • A Cellar Song
    • The Windyard
  • Felix N. Stefanile
    • Services
    • That Miser, Fear
  • David Cornel De Jong
    • I Never Lost Faith in Angels
    • Yellow Tom
    • The Smallness and Strangeness
  • Herbert Morris
    • Myself and Thou from Theatres of the Night
    • Hôtel de dieu
  • Howard Nemerov
    • Death and the Maiden
Comment
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • Letter from Haiti
  • Alan Neame
    • Aware or Disregarding
  • Henry Birnbaum
    • The Poetry of Protest
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Beast-Type Sockdolagers
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Elise Asher
  • Henry Birnbaum
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • David Cornel De Jong
  • Dorothy Donnelly
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Barbara Howes
  • D. J. Hughes
  • Hugh Kenner
  • John Montague
  • Herbert Morris
  • Alan Neame
  • Howard Nemerov
  • Sylvia Plath
  • James Reaney
  • Peter Redgrove
  • Felix N. Stefanile
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