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June 1940

 
  • Kenneth Fearing
  • James Daly
  • Richard Eberhart
  • E. Idle
  • Arthur Kramer
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The Soul and Body of John Brown

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The Political Prisoner

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Victory

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Table of Contents

  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • The Soul and Body of John Brown
Four Poems
  • Edouard Roditi
    • The Political Prisoner
    • John Lack-Land
    • London by Moonlight
    • Amare Est Amarum
Two Poems
  • Arthur J. Kramer
    • Victory
    • Vampire
  • Jean Starr Untermeyer
    • The Realists
  • James Johnson Sweeney
    • Guernica
  • Nicholas Moore
    • Two Poems
  • E. Doreen Idle
    • Holiday
  • Marguerite Young
    • Ventriloquist: The Coffee Hour
  • Helene S Pulse
    • Peeling Apples
  • Yvonne Markus
    • Anabasis
Three Poems
  • Robert Liddell Lowe
    • Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
    • An Old Man Talking in His Sleep
    • The Liable Tree
Two Poems
  • James Daly
    • A.D. 1940: An Epigraph
    • Franchester Farm
  • Richard Eberhart
    • From "Poem in Construction"
  • John Peale Bishop
    • The Poetry of a E. Housman
  • Maude Sumner Smith
    • When Children Write Verse
Reviews
  • Conrad Aiken
    • A Rocking Alphabet
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
    • The Last Tourist
  • David Sachs
    • The Military Image
  • Howard Milton Blake
    • Seventeenth Century Yankee
CONTRIBUTORS
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  • John Peale Bishop
  • Howard Milton Blake
  • James Daly
  • Richard Eberhart
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  • E. Doreen Idle
  • Arthur J. Kramer
  • Robert Liddell Lowe
  • Yvonne Markus
  • Nicholas Moore
  • Helene S Pulse
  • Edouard Roditi
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • David Sachs
  • Maude Sumner Smith
  • James Johnson Sweeney
  • Jean Starr Untermeyer
  • Marguerite Young
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