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December 1948

 
  • Waldemar Hansen
  • William O'Connor
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Hubert Creekmore
  • Henry Fisher
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Driftwood

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An Old Story of How

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Here Comes a Candle to Light Me to Bed

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Richard Wilbur
    • Driftwood
    • We
    • To an American Poet Just Dead
    • Weather Bird
Two Poems
  • Hubert Creekmore
    • An Old Story of How
    • Agony Column
  • Phyllis Haring
    • Here Comes a Candle to Light Me to Bed
Four Poems
  • Nicholas Moore
    • The Maroon Suit
    • When I First Held Your Naked Body
    • The Truth about the Ogre
    • The Dream of Ravens
  • Henry G. Fisher
    • The Closet-Drinker
Three Poems
  • May Miller
    • Measurement
    • Instant before Sleep
    • Brief Negro Sermon
Two Poems
  • David Wagoner
    • Beginning
    • Marsh Leaf
  • Charlotte Miles
    • The Hill of the Hawks
  • John Robert Quinn
    • White Goose in Snow
Three Poems
  • Elder James Olson
    • The Rebellion
    • Ice-Age
    • Pavane for the New Year
Comment
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Out of the Woods
  • William Elton
    • A Glossary of the New Criticism
  • Israel Newman
    • The Physiology of Consciousness and Its Relation to Poetry (Continued)
Reviews
  • Paul Goodman
    • The World as a Spider-Web
  • Robert Gorham Davis
    • Eucharist and Roasting Pheasant
  • Richard Eberhart
    • Art and Zeitgeist
  • Marya Zaturenska
    • Tradition Isn't Convention
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Hubert Creekmore
  • Robert Gorham Davis
  • Richard Eberhart
  • William Elton
  • Henry G. Fisher
  • Paul Goodman
  • Phyllis Haring
  • Charlotte Miles
  • May Miller
  • Nicholas Moore
  • Israel Newman
  • Elder James Olson
  • John Robert Quinn
  • David Wagoner
  • Richard Wilbur
  • Marya Zaturenska
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