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September 1949

 
  • Albert Erskine
  • Claude Fredericks
  • F. Morley
  • Myron Broomell
  • William Gibson
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Pod

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"White thighs, hillocks of whiteness..."

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Rue Durock

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • William Gibson
    • Pod
    • Circe
    • The Sorrow Bush
Two Translations
  • Pablo Neruda
    • "White thighs, hillocks of whiteness..."
    • "'Tis the morrow full of storm..."
  • Roger Shattuck
    • Rue Durock
  • John Williams
    • The Wall
Three Poems
  • Harold Norse
    • The Pride of Atreus
    • What the Birds Know
    • Suddenly All the Continents
  • Myron H. Broomell
    • Of Novel Disseizin
Two Poems
  • Louis Kent
    • The Clerk's Good Night
    • Midsummer
  • Herbert Morris
    • The Color That Is Loss
  • William Jay Smith
    • Persian Miniature
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • Pieces of Orpheus
An Editorial
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Malediction against Radio Announcers
Opinion
  • J. V. Cunningham
    • The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry
Reviews
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • A Note on St.-John Perse
  • Frank Jones
    • The Edge of Being What?
  • Alison Genevieve White
    • Sensibility, Naturalism, Etc.: Old Canons Extended
  • Ned Rosenheim
    • Death and the Poet's Deportment
  • Rosalie Moore
    • Blood, Sweat, and Poets
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Lectures and Essays
  • F. V. Morley
    • Poetry on Records
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Myron H. Broomell
  • Hayden Carruth
  • J. V. Cunningham
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • William Gibson
  • Frank Jones
  • Louis Kent
  • Rosalie Moore
  • F. V. Morley
  • Herbert Morris
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Harold Norse
  • Ned Rosenheim
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Roger Shattuck
  • William Jay Smith
  • Alison Genevieve White
  • John Williams
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