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September 1941

 
  • Robert Graves
  • David Daiches
  • Nelson Algren
  • Basil Bunting
  • Paul Engle
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America 1941

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The Five Dreams

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To Violet

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Table of Contents

America 1941
  • Paul Engle
    • America 1941
    • On the Birth of My Child
    • Elements
    • Henry David Thoreau
    • Emily Dickinson
    • Contrary
    • Letter after Drouth
Two Poems
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • The Five Dreams
    • The Statue
  • Basil Bunting
    • To Violet
  • Genevieve Taggard
    • Range, Range the Words Around
Three Poems
  • Jeremy Ingalls
    • The Error of the Tyrant
    • In Time of Civil Wars
    • If None Will Listen
Two Poems
  • Nelson Algren
    • Local South
    • How Long Blues
Six Poems
  • Eve Merriam
    • Jew
    • I Anonymous
    • Ditty for Departing Troops
    • The Democratic Dime
    • Funeral Service
    • Imagine Yourself
  • Israel Smith
    • Sojourn in Vermont
  • Clifford Franklin Gessler
    • Tehuantepec Journey
  • Bob Miller
    • Opaque Clouds
Two Poems
  • Josephine Johnson
    • A Polar Word
    • In the Park
Three Poems
  • Edwin Muir
    • The Recurrence
    • The Grove
    • The Finder Found
  • David Daiches
    • New Trends in Soviet Russian Poetry
Reviews
  • Kerker Quinn
    • Story of an Arkansas Poet
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Over the Hills and Far Away
  • Karl Shapiro
    • De Imitatione
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Muse in Michigan
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Nelson Algren
  • Basil Bunting
  • David Daiches
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Paul Engle
  • Clifford Franklin Gessler
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Jeremy Ingalls
  • Josephine Johnson
  • Eve Merriam
  • Bob Miller
  • Edwin Muir
  • Kerker Quinn
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Israel Smith
  • Genevieve Taggard
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