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January 1939

 
  • Priscilla Bromley
  • Harry Brown
  • E. Cummings
  • Arthur Ficke
  • Louise McNeill
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["mortals)..."]

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America Is Happy Tonight

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Sonnet for an Introvert

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • E. E. Cummings
    • ["mortals)..."]
    • ("these children singing in stone a...")
    • ("nouns to nouns...")
    • ("when what hugs stopping earth...")
    • ("up into the silence the green...")
    • ("six...")
    • [love is more thicker than forget]
Three Poems
  • Arthur Davison Ficke
    • America Is Happy Tonight
    • Portrait ("Oh burning eyes...")
    • Portrait ("You, silver-throat...")
  • Norman Nicholson
    • Sonnet for an Introvert
First Summary
  • David Sachs
    • First Summary
    • Poem ("Sleep's long felicity...")
    • Sonnet
    • Poem ("No Minerva was I...")
    • Snow Settles on the Town
Three Poems
  • Louise McNeill
    • Nora Kane
    • Tillie Sage
Four Poems
  • Keidrych Rhys
    • Poem on Being
    • Nonconformity
    • Garn Goch
    • Treasury
Two Poems
  • Priscilla Bromley
    • The Town
    • Burial
  • Harry Brown
    • The Map of the Age
Six Poems
  • Marion Strobel
    • Involuntary Spies
    • Curfew
    • Snow
    • Under What Flying Colors
    • Ascent
    • For Grief
Reviews
  • William Fitzgerald
    • Make It NewOr Else!
  • Theodore Roethke
    • Ben Belitt's First Volume
  • Edouard Roditi
    • Poetry, Mysticism, and Magic
  • Ruth Lechlitner
    • A Personal Philosophy
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Priscilla Bromley
  • Harry Brown
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Arthur Davison Ficke
  • William Fitzgerald
  • Ruth Lechlitner
  • Louise McNeill
  • Norman Nicholson
  • Keidrych Rhys
  • Edouard Roditi
  • Theodore Roethke
  • David Sachs
  • Marion Strobel
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