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November 1942

 
  • Stephen Stepanchev
  • Witter Bynner
  • Helena Carus
  • David De Jong
  • Oliver Gogarty
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Ballade of the Second-Best Bed

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Duologue

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The Liberators

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Ballade of the Second-Best Bed
    • The Twins
    • A Cut Flower
    • Nostalgia
Three Poems
  • Ted Olson
    • Duologue
    • Once in Norway
    • Malediction on the Mind
Two Poems
  • H. R. Hays
    • The Liberators
    • To an American Flyer
  • Helena Carus
    • Buddha, 480 B. C.
Four Poems
  • Witter Bynner
    • Confessional
    • Joe and Jack and Jennie
    • Snow
    • The Heart
  • Ralph Gustafson
    • Excelling the Starry Splendor of This Night
  • Alan Swallow
    • Ode to Russia
  • Oliver St. John Gogarty
    • Croker of Ballinagarde
  • David Cornel De Jong
    • Suburban Life and Death
Four Poems
  • John Nerber
    • Ghosts
    • The Bridge
    • Preface for a Friend's Book
    • Grendel
  • Stephen Stepanchev
    • Serbian Poetry
Reviews
  • William M. Sale Jr.
    • The Protean Rilke
  • Hi Simons
    • The Humanism of Wallace Stevens
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
    • A New Poet
  • John A. Holmes
    • Brave Head in the Dirt
  • Marian Castleman
    • Satires and Lyrics
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  • Witter Bynner
  • Helena Carus
  • Marian Castleman
  • David Cornel De Jong
  • Oliver St. John Gogarty
  • Ralph Gustafson
  • H. R. Hays
  • John A. Holmes
  • John Nerber
  • Ted Olson
  • William M. Sale Jr.
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Hi Simons
  • Stephen Stepanchev
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
  • Alan Swallow
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