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December 1939

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Charles Abbott
Giuseppe Borgese
Kenneth Alling
Tom Boggs
Paul Engle

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Table of Contents

Our Human Strength

Paul Engle
- Extreme
- Weather
- Divination
- Moving In
- Bird
- Fern
- Our Human Strength

Two Poems

T. C. Wilson
- When the Time Is Up
- Song ("The nuptial fetes...")

Four Poems

Winfield Townley Scott

Virginia Moore
- Angels...
Hugh MacDiarmid
- Of Life and Death

Two Poems

Ralph Gustafson
- Begin Living O How
- We Shall Know Hurt

Anne Young
- Pastoral

Three Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Room
- Portrait
- Iron Urn

Tom Boggs
- Bells

Four Poems

Robert Friend

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
- Outline of a Poetics: Part I
Delmore Schwartz
- Rimbaud in Our Time

Reviews

William Empson
- A Masterly Synthesis
Nelson Algren
- Sentiment with Terror
Morgan Blum
- Manhattan Apocalypse

Contributors
- - Paul Engle
  - T. C. Wilson
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Virginia Moore
  - Hugh MacDiarmid
- - Ralph Gustafson
  - Anne Young
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Tom Boggs
  - Robert Friend
- - Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
  - Delmore Schwartz
  - William Empson
  - Nelson Algren
  - Morgan Blum