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June 1947

 
  • Katherine Chapin
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Nelson Bittner
  • Millen Brand
  • Elizabeth Brewster
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Letter to Virginia Johnson

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Widower's Tango

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The Archer with His Arrow

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Table of Contents

  • John Ciardi
    • Letter to Virginia Johnson
  • Pablo Neruda
    • Widower's Tango
Three Poems
  • Alison Lurie
    • The Archer with His Arrow
    • In a Good Year
    • Trees, Being Neighbors
  • Bill Swing
    • Alta Eager
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
    • Casualty
  • Elizabeth Brewster
    • In the Library
  • C. P. Cavafy
    • Footfalls
Three Poems
  • Lila Hitchcock
    • Burns's Stanza
    • Artist Dormant
    • The Glance
  • Bruce Berlind
    • Dolly Pentreath
Two Poems
  • Millen Brand
    • Joe HeimbacherThe Start
    • Dinner
  • Elizabeth McFarland
    • Exiles
  • Anthony Kerrigan
    • Haitian Themes
  • Paul Goodman
    • Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious
  • Nelson Del Bittner
    • Blue Piano
Four Poems
  • Marion Strobel
    • Round Trip
    • A Fantasy and Fact
    • Tarpon: Strike and Getaway
    • Prayers for One Person
Coorespondance
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
    • Humanism as the Father Face (A Critical Preview)
Reviews
  • Dudley Fitts
    • The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
  • A. J. M. Smith
    • The Uneven Maturing Man
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
    • Travelers in a Secret Country
  • Ray Smith
    • Two Kinds of Myth
  • Frajam Taylor
    • The Fount of Bliss
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Nelson Del Bittner
  • Millen Brand
  • Elizabeth Brewster
  • C. P. Cavafy
  • John Ciardi
  • Dudley Fitts
  • Paul Goodman
  • Lila Hitchcock
  • Anthony Kerrigan
  • Alison Lurie
  • Elizabeth McFarland
  • Pablo Neruda
  • A. J. M. Smith
  • Ray Smith
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
  • Marion Strobel
  • Bill Swing
  • Frajam Taylor
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
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