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October 1939

 
  • Giuseppe Borgese
  • James Daly
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • Maurice Lesemann
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Come, Little Birds

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Mountain Quail

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Aqueduct of Claudius

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Table of Contents

  • Robinson Jeffers
    • Come, Little Birds
  • Maurice Lesemann
    • Mountain Quail
From "Cafes and Cathedrals"
  • C. F. MacIntyre
    • Aqueduct of Claudius
    • Autumn in Arles
    • Idyl beside the Lower Tiber
    • Retired Actress
    • Spring Dance of the Bedouins
    • Chrysanthemums
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Escape Denied
  • David Ross
    • Morning's Not in Our Time
Celestial Science
  • Kathryn Worth
    • Lunar Eclipse
    • Thy Sun for Orbit
    • In the Observatory
Two Poems
  • Michael Roberts
    • The Death
    • Rockall
Four Poems
  • James Daly
    • Lutany at Brink of Armageddon
    • The Dreamed Flight
    • A Nausicaa Remembers
    • Stokowski in the Park
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • Elegy
  • Delmore Schwartz
    • The Enigma of Robinson Jeffers
Reviews
  • Paul Rosenfeld
    • Under Angry Constellations
  • Kenneth Burke
    • On Poetry and Poetics
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kenneth Burke
  • James Daly
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • Maurice Lesemann
  • C. F. MacIntyre
  • Michael Roberts
  • Paul Rosenfeld
  • David Ross
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Kathryn Worth
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