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April 1950

 
  • Malcolm Cowley
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Rosalie Moore
  • Robert Richman
  • Delmore Schwartz
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Hope like the Phoenix Breast Rises Again

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Indian Summer

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Blue Sleigh

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Table of Contents

Eleven Poems
  • Delmore Schwartz
    • Hope like the Phoenix Breast Rises Again
    • My Love, My Love, My Love, Why Have You Left Me Alone?
    • The Desperanto of Willynully
    • The Self Unsatisfied Runs Everywhere
    • Chaplin upon the Cliff, Dining Alone
    • The Rumor and the Whir of Unborn Wings
    • The Heart Flies up, Erratic as a Kite
    • Why Do You Write an Endless History?
    • The Self-Betrayal Which Is Nothing New
    • Twelfth Night, Next Year, a Week-End in Eternity
    • True Recognition Is Often Refused
Six Poems
  • Richard Eberhart
    • Indian Summer
    • Politics
    • Talk at Dawn
    • Order and Disorder
    • Forms of the Human
    • The Forum
Two Poems
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Blue Sleigh
    • Numbered Summer
  • Malcolm Cowley
    • Passport Blues
Three Poems
  • Byron Vazakas
    • Downward
    • The Letter
    • The Orphans
  • Robert Richman
    • The Hunt of the Unicorn
  • Rosalie Moore
    • The Easter of the Mill
Reviews
  • Monroe K. Spears
    • The Failure of Language
  • Eliseo Vivas
    • Lorca's Background
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • Bronze by Gold
  • Hubert Creekmore
    • Virtuosity
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Malcolm Cowley
  • Hubert Creekmore
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Rosalie Moore
  • Robert Richman
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Monroe K. Spears
  • Byron Vazakas
  • Eliseo Vivas
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