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MARIANNE MOORE: More Fables from La Fontaine JOHN FREDERICK NIMS: Three Poems KARL SHAPIRO: The Alphabet W. S. MERWIN: Spider Three New Poets: DONALD FINKEL, DON GEIGER, HOLLIS SUMMERS

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Marianne Moore Cid Corman 311 340 More Fables from La Fontaine A Requisite Commitment TTie Kind 0/ Act 0/， by Robert Karl Shapiro Creeley 315 The Alphabet Eda Lou Walton 343 Donald Finkel Younger Voices 316 Of Love, by Tom Boggs Of All the Ways To Die Survivors Leave, by Charles Caus- ley Don Geiger Spring and Death, by Charles Hig- 317 ham Speed of Sound ffwmanifj/，by Gretchen Warren

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Spider Babette Deutsch 353 John Frederick Nims 323 The Waste Remains Decline and Fall The Letters of Hart Crane，1916- Etruscan Tomb 1932, ed. by Brom Weber The Young Ionia Hugh Kenner 357 REVIEWS: Some Elders William Jay Smith Collected Poemsy by Padraic Colum 331 W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore, The Legacy of Laforgue Their Correspondence, ed. by Jules Laforgue and the Ironic In- Ursula Bridge heritance, by Warren Ramsey Dichtung und Prosa, by Ezra Pound, tr. by Eva Hesse Harry Duncan Women by Trachis, by Sophocles. 335 A version by Ezra Pound In Service of Innocence The Undersea Mountain, by Harold POETRY CHRONICLE Norse 367

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BOOK FIVE

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THE HEN THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS

Take all that is there and forfeit increment, Is a truth too clear for argument In the old fairytale in which golden eggs were laid, One a day. The poor owner would stare At the hen, till sure there was gold in her to share, Then killed, spread out the bird, and was of course repaid By no more than would be found in an ordinary hen. He had cut tlie magic chain and she’d never lay again.