December 1967 Daisy AldanTom ClarkJack CrawfordJohn FrederickArthur GregorTable of ContentsFrom this IssuePoempoetry-magazineThe Lake: Coda Read More Poempoetry-magazineYour Letter Read More Poempoetry-magazineThe Surf Rider Read More Table of ContentsTom ClarkThe Lake: CodaThe CityFig. 1The SongSonnet ("Five a.m. on East Fourteenth...")Death in the FamilyDaisy AldanYour LetterVertical Is Our New SightEverywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!The Cometary ScriptJack Crawford Jr.The Surf RiderLorine Niedecker("Smile/to see the lake...")("Fall...")Four Poems("Young in Fall I said...")("We are what the seas...")M. L. RosenthalFarewellReality, the Void Abandoned by ImaginationSamuel MoonThe PlaneMan in the LandscapeThe RiverLewis TurcoAn Arras TapestryPhilip LevineSpanish LessonGeorge OppenBalladA PrefaceA Theological DefinitionHistoric PunArthur GregorThe Unworldliness That He CreatesCommentWilliam E. Stafford[Ingemar Gustafson, Karin Boye]The Collected Shorter Poems, by Kenneth RexrothThis Strangest Everything, by John CiardiBuckshee, by Ford Madox FordExcursions: New and Selected Poems, by Katherine HoskinsHalf Sun Half Sleep, by May SwensonA Five-Book ShelfRaymond RoseliepOur Land & Our Sea & HallelujahHallelujah Anyway, by Kenneth PatchenStill Lives and Other Lives, by Saul TousterA Geography, by Thom GunnTidings, by James BroughtonDonald W. BakerFive PoetsA Japanese Journal, by John TagliabueTwenty Years of Hands, by Simon PerchikChange of Address, by Kathleen FraserA Beginning, by William BurfordSix Mile Corner, by Robert DawsonFrederick J. HoffmanThe New England Conscience, by Austin WarrenT. S. Eliot: The Dialectical Structure of His Theory of Poetry, by Fei-Pai LuLiterature Inside Out: Ten Speculative Essays, by Frederic WillConceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry, by L. S. DemboThe Uses of LiteratureContentsJohn Towner FrederickNotes on Natural HistoryRaymond RoseliepThe Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems, by Edith L. TiempoCivil Poems, by Josephine MilesPoems for Nathan and Saul and Things We Dreamt We Died For, by Marvin BellCONTRIBUTORSDaisy AldanDonald W. BakerTom ClarkJack Crawford Jr.John Towner FrederickArthur GregorFrederick J. HoffmanPhilip LevineSamuel MoonLorine NiedeckerGeorge OppenRaymond RoseliepM. L. RosenthalWilliam E. StaffordLewis Turco