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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 57
Spring 1974
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Spring 1974
“I have told people I am a medieval historian when asked what I do. It freezes conversation. If one tells them one’s a poet, one gets these odd looks”: W. H. Auden on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by Edmundo Desnoes, Grace Paley, and Christina Stead. Poems by Richard Frost and W. S. Merwin.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17
Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49

FICTION
Edmundo Desnoes, An Adventure in the Tropics
Grace Paley, The Little Girl
Christina Stead, A View of the Homestead
Paul West, Tan Salaam
Joy Williams, A Story About Friends

POETRY
Jack Anderson, Three Poems
Gevorg Emin, Two Poems
Richard Frost, The Tyger
Cynthia Genser, Two Poems
Geof Hewitt, Liquids
Jill Hoffman, The Three Pigs
David Ignatow, Three Poems
David Kelly, Two Poems
Greg Kuzma, Three Poems
W. S. Merwin, A Miser
Pablo Neruda, Six Poems
Stephen Sossaman, The My Tho Laundry
Ricardo da S.L. Sternberg, Song of a Crow, Dying
Brian Swann, Two Poems
Elena Wilkinson, After the Loss of a Limb

ART
Red Grooms, Portfolio
Peter Lobello, Cover

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