26 -1961/Summer-Fall -- Cover by Hans Beck, Frontispiece by William Pene du Bois, Contents page by Bee Dabney

FICTION:

  • "Miss Euayla is the Sweetest Thing" by Hughes Rudd
  • "The Mourner" by Cecil Dawkins
  • "Across the Line" by Georgia McKinley

    • INTERVIEWS:

  • Marianne Moore - The Art of Poetry IV
  • Ilya Ehrenburg - The Art of Fiction XXVI

    • RUSSIAN POETRY PORTFOLIO:
    Boris Pasternak - Adapted by Robert Lowell

  • Anna Ahmatova - Translated by Richard Wilbur
  • Ossip Mandelstam - Marina Tsvetayeva - Andrei Vozneisenski -- Translated by Rose Styron and Olga Carlisle

    • INVESTIGATION:

  • The First Day's Interview by Norman Mailer

    • POETRY:

  • Three Poems by Malcolm Lowry
  • Two Poems by James Wright
  • "My Sad Captains" by Thom Gunn
  • "Dayley Island" by Frederick Seidel
  • "Night Notes on an Old Dream" by Philip Booth
  • "For Kate" by Charles Reynolds
  • Two Poems by W.S. Merwin
  • "Harald, etc." byGeorge Mackay Brown
  • "The Wicked and Unfaithful Song of Marcel Duchamp to His Queen" by Paul Carroll