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The Paris Review No. 32, Summer-Fall 1964

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“It is not inspiration; it is expiration”: Jean Cocteau on the Art of Fiction.

“Facing the universe of sound”: William Carlos Williams on the Art of Poetry.

William Fifield interviews Pablo Picasso.

A story by Stanley Elkin. Poems by Robert Bly and Charles Olson.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Stanley Elkin, The Great Sandusky

Herbert Lobsenz, Pelican of the Wilderness

Interview

Jean Cocteau, The Art of Fiction No. 34  Full Text

William Carlos Williams, The Art of Poetry No. 6  Full Text

Poetry

Robert Bly, Meditation on Olai and Pete Bly

Larry Eigner, Monet's Sunrise, Apr. 7 '64

Theodore Holmes, Tourist Cabins in Winter

Olga Marx, Passages from the Odes of Pindar

Lewis Meyers, Catacombs

Lorine Niedecker, Art Center

Charles Olson, Two Sections from Maximus

Renata V. Scheliha, Passages from the Odes of Pindar

Harold Witt, You Must Say Good Bye

Louis Zukovsky, Catullus 70, 72, 73

Feature

William Fifield, Pablo Picasso--A Composite Interview

Art

Kosta Alex, Eight Sculptures and an Interview

Nicolas Heim, Contents Page