December 1968
- Robert Chatain
- Robert Duncan
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Mark McCloskey
- W. Merwin
From this Issue
Poem
The bison, or tiger, or whatever beast
hunting or hunted, and the twiggy hunter
with legs and spear, in the still caves of Spain
wore out the million rains of summer
and the mean mists of winter:
the frightening motion of the...
hunting or hunted, and the twiggy hunter
with legs and spear, in the still caves of Spain
wore out the million rains of summer
and the mean mists of winter:
the frightening motion of the...
Table of Contents
- W. S. Merwin
- Robert Chatain
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Ray Smith
- Mark McCloskey
- May Swenson
- Robert Duncan
Comment
- Michael Benedikt
- Baseball, by George Bowering
- The Experience of Literature (Ed. by Lionel Trilling)
- The Congresswomen of Aristophanes (Tr. by Douglass Parker)
- Sixty Poems of Martial (Tr. by Dudley Fitts)
- Poems after Martial (Tr. by Philip Murray)
- I Do Best Alone at Night,by Gunnar Ekelf(Ed. and tr. by Robert Bly with Christina Paulson)
- Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Tr. by Michael Hamburger, Jerome Rothenberg, and the author)
- Visions of Christ, by Rainer Maria Rilke (Ed. by Siegfried Mandel) (Tr. by Aaron Kramer)
- Poems from the German (Ed. by Helen Plotz)
- Poems from France (Ed. by William Jay Smith)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Verse in Translation (Ed. by George Steiner)
- Bean Spasms, by Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett
- The Buddha Uproar, by John Tagliabue
- The Shapes of Nature
- Word Alchemy, by Lenore Kandel
- Water I Slip Into at Night and 25 Stages of My Spine, by Margaret Randall
- Not Only That, by Carroll Arnett
- Sled Hill Voices, by Aram Saroyan
- Waking Up Still Pickled, by Geof Hewitt
- The Binnacle, by Robert Peterson
- What the Grass Says, by Charles Simic
- O'Ryan, by Charles Olson
- Covenants, by Robert Stock
- The Marches, by James Scully
- So Long at the Fair, by Miller Williams
- Body Rags, by Galway Kinnell
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