Our Man in the Twit'nam, by Hayden Carruth, THE HUDSON REVIEW

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Our Man in the Twit'nam

An Argument of Images, by Patricia A. Meyer Spacks

by Hayden Carruth

The Hudson Review, Spring 1975, pp. 136-140

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    2. The Specialization of Poetry by Wendell Berry, pp. 11-27
    3. The Cowshed Blues; Alba by Hayden Carruth, pp. 28-33
    4. The Undoing by Kim Waller, p. 34
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      4. Or Else: Poems 1968-74 by Robert Penn Warren
      5. Shrapnel and a Poet's Year by George MacBeth
      6. You Are Happy by Margaret Atwood
      7. No Time for Good Reasons by Brendan Galvin
      8. A Sense of Place by Celeste Turner Wright
      9. The Way In, and Other Poems by Charles Tomlinson
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      1. An Argument of Images by Patricia A. Meyer Spacks
      2. An Essay on Pope by Frederick M. Keener
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      3. Local Talent by Marlene F. Shyer
      4. Gathering Force by Leslie Newman
      5. The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving
      6. Miriam at Thirty-Four by Alan Lelchuk
      7. The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin
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      17. The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
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    1. Notes on Contributors, pp. 165-168
    2. Prose Poems; Lines Written in the Euganean Hills; Images of Perfection; Departure; Deat... by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 169-172
    3. The Glass Cottage (a nautical romance) by Peter Redgrove, pp. 173-226
    4. The Rise of the Dramatic Monologue by Philip Hobsbaum, pp. 227-245
    5. The Clearing by Wendell Berry, pp. 246-252
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    2. Notes on Contributors, pp. 330-332
    3. The Inside and the Outside by Jean Starobinski, pp. 333-351
    4. Archilochos: Fireworks on the Grass by Guy Davenport, pp. 352-356
    5. Blue Hill Poems by Frederick Morgan, pp. 357-362
    6. Eurydice; After Many Words, a Long Time by Phyllis Hoge Thompson, pp. 363-366
    7. Ward B: The Saturday Nights; The Morning Thirst; A Crown by Stephen Jamison, pp. 367-376
    8. Interview with Peter Redgrove by Jed Rasula and Mike Erwin, pp. 377-401
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    2. The Question of Poetic Form by Hayden Carruth, pp. 491-501
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