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July 1940

 
  • F. Weiskopf
  • John Ciardi
  • Kenneth Gee
  • Paul Goodman
  • Amanda Hall
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The Cactus

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On a Photograph of a German Soldier Dead in Poland

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To Undo the Work of the Creation

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Table of Contents

  • Thomas Wood Stevens
    • The Cactus
  • John Ciardi
    • On a Photograph of a German Soldier Dead in Poland
Two Poems
  • Paul Goodman
    • To Undo the Work of the Creation
    • Electra
  • Peter Viereck
    • Graves Are Made to Waltz On
Three Poems
  • Henry W. Rago
    • Meeting of a Poetry Society
    • The Newsreel
    • National Hook-Up
  • Margery Swett Mansfield
    • Blessing Mrs. Larkin
Two Poems
  • Edith Franklin Wyatt
    • Stream of Consciousness1816
    • Perugino's World
Poems for Small Apartments
  • Edward Horn
    • The Brilliant
    • Recall
Kenneth Gee
  • Kenneth Gee
    • Two Poems
  • Amanda Benjamin Hall
    • New England Sabbath
  • Alfred Hayes
    • The Imitation of Faust
Reviews
  • Leo Shapiro
    • The Medievalism of T. S. Eliot
  • Lionel Abel
    • Clever, Disconcerting, Rash
  • Gladys Campbell
    • A Singing Gallery
  • M. Jean Prussing
    • Four Poets
  • William M. Sale Jr.
    • Aspects of Craft
  • Edouard Roditi
    • Anthologies as Balance-Sheets
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Lionel Abel
  • Gladys Campbell
  • John Ciardi
  • Kenneth Gee
  • Paul Goodman
  • Amanda Benjamin Hall
  • Alfred Hayes
  • Edward Horn
  • Margery Swett Mansfield
  • M. Jean Prussing
  • Henry W. Rago
  • Edouard Roditi
  • William M. Sale Jr.
  • Leo Shapiro
  • Thomas Wood Stevens
  • Peter Viereck
  • Edith Franklin Wyatt
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