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October 1938

 
  • Kimball Flaccus
  • D. Savage
  • Genevieve Taggard
  • Tom Boggs
  • Malcolm Cowley
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Inert Perfection

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The Human Condition

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American Rhapsody

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Table of Contents

Eight Poems
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • Inert Perfection
    • Song for Young Lovers in a City
    • The Fitting
    • What Savage Blossom
    • Intention to Escape from Him
    • The Road to the Past
    • Sonnet in Tetrameter
    • Truce for a Moment
  • Stephen Spender
    • The Human Condition
Three Poems
  • Kenneth Fearing
    • American Rhapsody
    • To a Daffodil, or Perhaps a Little Gossip about Flaubert
    • Sos
  • Garrett Oppenheim
    • The Olympian in Autumn
  • Robert Whittington
    • The Squirrels
  • William Stephens
    • The Old Men
The Sounding Vision
  • Marshall Schacht
    • Fiddle Practice
    • The Fancy People
    • The Further Goal
    • Oration for My Nazi Cousins
    • Our Town
Two Poems
  • Tom Boggs
    • Rogue's Gallery
    • From Unfulfilled Delight
  • Katharine Shattuck
    • Jungle Piece
Four Songs
  • Malcolm Cowley
    • The Dry Season
    • The Mother
    • The Firstborn
    • The Long Voyage
  • Genevieve Taggard
    • The Critical Method of R. P. Blackmur
Reviews
  • John Gould Fletcher
    • Illusion for Illusion
  • T. C. Wilson
    • Poetry—The Painless Way
  • Kenneth Fearing
    • Historic Certainties
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Tom Boggs
  • Malcolm Cowley
  • Kenneth Fearing
  • John Gould Fletcher
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Garrett Oppenheim
  • Marshall Schacht
  • Katharine Shattuck
  • Stephen Spender
  • William Stephens
  • Genevieve Taggard
  • Robert Whittington
  • T. C. Wilson
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