December 1968
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
                                                                    This issue is sold out.
                                                            
                        - Robert Chatain
 - Robert Duncan
 - Josephine Jacobsen
 - Mark McCloskey
 - W. Merwin
 
                            Table of Contents
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                                            W. S. Merwin
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                                            Robert Chatain
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                                            Josephine Jacobsen
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                                            Ray Smith
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                                            Mark McCloskey
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                                            May Swenson
 - 
                                            Robert Duncan
 
                            Comment
                        
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                                            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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                            Contributors
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- W. S. Merwin
 - Robert Chatain
 - Josephine Jacobsen
 
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- Ray Smith
 - Mark McCloskey
 - May Swenson
 
 
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