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August 1945

 
  • John Theobald
  • Edward Fenton
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Francis Golffing
  • Harold Heifetz
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The Condemned

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Movie

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Epistle to Kansas City

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • P. K. Page
    • The Condemned
    • Children
    • Contagion
    • Stories of Snow
    • Love Poem
  • Jean Garrigue
    • Movie
Two Poems
  • Bernard Raymund
    • Epistle to Kansas City
    • Marine
Five Poems
  • Francis C. Golffing
    • A Ballade of Reckoning
    • Dialogue at Midnight
    • A Friend's Retort
    • The Higher Empiricism
    • Cradle Song for a Young Sailor
  • Wilbur Isaacs
    • Boy in Virginia
Two Poems
  • Lysander Kemp
    • Reveille Here and Now
    • On a Wall in Puerto Rico
  • Harold Heifetz
    • Ritual for the Night
  • Norman Nicholson
    • The Crocus
Two Poems
  • Edward Fenton
    • A Dove, a Dog, a Dancing Mouse
    • The Orchard's Floor
Four Poems
  • John Nerber
    • The Spectre Image
    • Family Reunion
    • Yorick
    • Hamlet
  • David Daiches
    • The Poetry of Karl Shapiro
Reviews
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Miracle and Mystery
  • John A. Holmes
    • Pity and Satire
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • Conscience: Personal, Political, Philosophical
  • E. K. Brown
    • Russian Romantics
  • James E. Schevill
    • Myth without Humanity
CONTRIBUTORS
  • E. K. Brown
  • David Daiches
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Edward Fenton
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Francis C. Golffing
  • Harold Heifetz
  • John A. Holmes
  • Wilbur Isaacs
  • Lysander Kemp
  • John Nerber
  • Norman Nicholson
  • P. K. Page
  • Bernard Raymund
  • James E. Schevill
  • Mona Van Duyn
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