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August 1946

 
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Jessie Lemont
  • Robert Francis
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
  • Scott Greer
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At the Terminal

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Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley

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Sleepless Palinurus

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Table of Contents

Eight Poems
  • William Jay Smith
    • At the Terminal
    • How like That Gallery You Are
    • Your Eyes, My Harlequins
    • O Love, O Love, These Oceans Vast
    • When All the Wild Valley Recovers the Leaf
    • The Vision
    • The Massacre of the Innocents
    • African Sequence
  • John Waller
    • Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
  • Silvina Ocampo
    • Sleepless Palinurus
  • Robert Francis
    • Five Poems
  • Scott Greer
    • The Return of Aegean Apollo
  • Theodore Roethke
    • The Return
Two Poems
  • Clinton Williams
    • The Quest
    • Trolley Stop
  • Marshall Schacht
    • Wave to the World
  • Frank Wood
    • Chalfont St. Giles
Three Poems
  • Patricia Martin
    • Would You Care to Leave a Message?
    • Sub Rosa
    • Of an Ivory Tower
Two Poems
  • Charles Norman
    • Palimpsest
    • When Soldiers Sing
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
    • The Years of Enormous Addresses
  • Ruth Lechlitner
    • Night in August
Two Poems
  • John A. Holmes
    • Election
    • Silence
Reviews
  • Josephine Miles
    • Poetry as a Rainbow
  • Dudley Fitts
    • A Pretty Book
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Dudley Fitts
  • Robert Francis
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
  • Scott Greer
  • John A. Holmes
  • Ruth Lechlitner
  • Patricia Martin
  • Josephine Miles
  • Charles Norman
  • Silvina Ocampo
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Marshall Schacht
  • William Jay Smith
  • John Waller
  • Clinton Williams
  • Frank Wood
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