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December 1940

 
  • Gorham Munson
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
  • David De Jong
  • Orian De Pledge
  • J. Hendry
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9, 19, 1939

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What the Old Man Said

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Sonnet ("How can he answer grief?")

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • Robinson Jeffers
    • 9, 19, 1939
    • Finland Is Down
    • Great Men
    • The Stars Go over the Lonely Ocean
    • The Bloody Sire
  • May Sarton
    • What the Old Man Said
  • Samuel French Morse
    • Sonnet ("How can he answer grief?")
Three Poems
  • David Cornel De Jong
    • Armistice Again
    • Night of Cats and Fathers
    • Such Sweet Sorrow
  • Inez Cunningham Stark
    • The Angel of the Lord
  • E. L. Mayo
    • The Questioners
  • Orian C. De Pledge
    • Autumn
  • J. F. Hendry
    • Midnight Air Raid
  • Rudolph Leonhard
    • Die Letzten Tage
Two Poems
  • David Morton
    • Chorus for Our Play
    • How Then ?
  • Charles Norman
    • Ring out, Ring In
Four Poems
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
    • Eyelet
    • Sea Sprout
    • Hiatus
    • To God
Two Poems
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
    • Advice to a Man
    • To Gertrude Stein
  • Margedant Peters
    • The Poet and Pedant Symposium
Reviews
  • John Vincent Healy
    • The Pound Problem
  • Henry W. Rago
    • Symmetry of Frustration
  • Louis Forster
    • The Two Bynners
  • Marion Strobel
    • Happy Landing
  • Tom Boggs
    • Five Anthologies
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
  • Tom Boggs
  • David Cornel De Jong
  • Orian C. De Pledge
  • Louis Forster
  • John Vincent Healy
  • J. F. Hendry
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • Rudolph Leonhard
  • E. L. Mayo
  • Samuel French Morse
  • David Morton
  • Charles Norman
  • Margedant Peters
  • Henry W. Rago
  • May Sarton
  • Inez Cunningham Stark
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
  • Marion Strobel
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