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September 1938

 
  • Harold Rosenberg
  • Jessica North
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Elizabeth Bohm
  • Carl Bomberger
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Country Miracle

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Seascape

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • Abbie Huston Evans
    • Country Miracle
    • Slow Gain
    • First Night of Fall
    • Time's Citizen
    • To a Forgotten Dutch Painter
  • Ralph Gustafson
    • Seascape
  • Julian Symons
    • Poem
Quiet Morning
  • Elizabeth Bohm
    • Stone Walls
    • The Unknown
    • Waste
    • The Milkweed Pod
    • September Water
  • W. G. Van Keuren
    • To a Stranger in Passing
Two Poems
  • Herman Gund
    • Carnival
    • Queens
  • Carl Bomberger
    • Inbred
Three Poems
  • May Lewis
    • Circular Pattern
    • Progress
    • Strikers
  • Michael Roberts
    • Mediterranean
The Past Is Dragging Statues
  • Oscar Williams
    • The Spritely Dead
    • Independence Day
    • The Dream
    • Why the Sea Is Salt
    • Portrait of Reality
    • Man and Squirrel
    • Summer Day
  • Harold Rosenberg
    • The God in the Car
  • Archibald MacLeish
    • A Letter from Archibald MacLeish
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Another Chance
Reviews
  • Babette Deutsch
    • A Lost Address
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • More of the Same
  • Anne Channing
    • Well-Made Lyrics
  • Edgar Lee Masters
    • Every Word Is Intentional
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Elizabeth Bohm
  • Carl Bomberger
  • Anne Channing
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Abbie Huston Evans
  • Herman Gund
  • Ralph Gustafson
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • May Lewis
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • Edgar Lee Masters
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Michael Roberts
  • Harold Rosenberg
  • Julian Symons
  • W. G. Van Keuren
  • Oscar Williams
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