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October 1941

 
  • Frajam Taylor
  • John Ciardi
  • Carl Grabo
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • Weldon Kees
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The Child in the Great Wood

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The Crew

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Henry James at Newport

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Table of Contents

The Child in the Great Wood
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • The Child in the Great Wood
    • Full Moon
    • Waltz
    • Sea Mercy
    • A Leg in a Plaster Cast
    • Suicide Blues
    • Long past Moncada
    • Song (“The world is full of loss ... ”)
From "Dunkirk'
  • E. J. Pratt
    • The Crew
    • The Multipedes on the Roads
    • In the Skies
Three Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • Henry James at Newport
    • For H. V. (1901-1927)
    • After the Trial
  • Carl H. Grabo
    • Religieuse
Two Poems
  • John Ciardi
    • Hometown
    • Massachusetts Bay
Four Poems
  • E. L. Mayo
    • The Diver
    • Sonnet for Redheads
    • The Positivists
    • Sooth for the Chancellor
  • Elizabeth Sait
    • The House
Three Poems
  • Geoffrey Grigson
    • The Professionals
    • No Get-Away
    • June
Two Poems
  • Carleton Ford Shaw
    • Prelude to War
    • Enemy
Poems from France
  • Jean Rivier
    • ("Now poverty with its tired eyes...")
    • ("Unhappiness to the women...")
    • La Femme en Lambeaux
    • ("The last alive in a dead world...")
  • D. S. Savage
    • Avant-Garde and Camp Followers
Reviews
  • E. S. Forgotson
    • Wheelwright as Intellect
  • Harvey Breit
    • An Expert's Game
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
    • One Irish
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Harvey Breit
  • John Ciardi
  • E. S. Forgotson
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
  • Carl H. Grabo
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • Weldon Kees
  • E. L. Mayo
  • E. J. Pratt
  • Jean Rivier
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Elizabeth Sait
  • D. S. Savage
  • Carleton Ford Shaw
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