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July 1947

 
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • George Dillon
  • Dorothy Alyea
  • Inez Boulton
  • Florence Brownell
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Grain Elevator

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"Vale" from Carthage

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Hard Rain

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • A. M. Klein
    • Grain Elevator
    • The Cripples
    • For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu
    • Air-Map
    • The Breakup
    • M. Bertrand
    • Frigidaire
  • Peter Viereck
    • "Vale" from Carthage
  • Dorothy Collins Alyea
    • Hard Rain
  • Hayden Carruth
    • The University of Chicago
  • Anne Ridler
    • Poem
  • Francis C. Cook
    • The Dead Hand
  • William Fense Weaver
    • Michelangelo
Three Poems
  • Jean Burden
    • The Atomic Age—Pasadena, California
    • . . . but the Child Was Born Dead
    • In Sorrow
  • Vernon Scannell
    • Love among the Tumblers
  • Florence Kerr Brownell
    • Duality
Two Poems
  • Inez Boulton
    • Waken Slowly!
    • To Mr. Muscles
  • Maurice Johnson
    • The Beach before Midnight
  • Theodore Roethke
    • The Long Alley
  • Hermann Hesse
    • "Bad" Poetry
  • Clyde W. Park
    • A Note on Hermann Hesse's Verse
Reviews
  • William Meredith
    • A Good Modern Poet and a Modern Tradition
  • Mary N. S. Whiteley
    • Savagely A Maker
  • Warren Beck
    • From the Most Mandrake Forest
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
    • A Difficult Career
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Romantic History
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Dorothy Collins Alyea
  • Warren Beck
  • Inez Boulton
  • Florence Kerr Brownell
  • Jean Burden
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Francis C. Cook
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Maurice Johnson
  • A. M. Klein
  • William Meredith
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Clyde W. Park
  • Anne Ridler
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Vernon Scannell
  • Peter Viereck
  • William Fense Weaver
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
  • Mary N. S. Whiteley
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