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The Paris Review No. 24, Summer-Fall 1960

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“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat”: Robert Frost on the Art of Poetry.

Tangerines, blizzards, and Dr. Zhivago: An interview with Boris Pasternak.

Stories by Gina Berriault, Elizabeth Savage, and Thomas Whitbread. Poems by Christopher Middleton and X.J. Kennedy.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Gina Berriault, The Bystander

Elizabeth Savage, Victoria

Jan Gerhard Toonder, The Time We Will

Thomas Whitbread, The Rememberer

Interview

Robert Frost, The Art of Poetry No. 2  Full Text

Boris Pasternak, The Art of Fiction No. 25  Full Text

Poetry

Arthur Boyars, Second Canto

Lee Gerlach, Earth and Air

Thom Gunn, With Good Humor

X. J. Kennedy, Faces From A Bestiary

Peter Levi S.J., Two Poems

Christopher Middleton, Three Poems

John Parker, In Solitary

Lewis Turco, Narcissus to His Fleshly Shade

Art

Michael Biddle, Illustration

Lars Bo, Contents

Olga Carlisle, Illustrations

Leonor Fini, Eight Drawings

J.F. Ulysse, Illustration