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August 1943

 
  • Edwin Honig
  • William O'Connor
  • John Pudney
  • Peter De Vries
  • Richard Crowder
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Paris

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Petite Suite Sans Fil

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Finnegans Wake

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Paris
    • Nigger
    • Poem ("Lord, I have seen...")
    • Movie Actress
    • Jew
    • Red Indian
    • Jefferson
  • Louis Aragon
    • Petite Suite Sans Fil
Two Poems
  • Ted Boorum
    • Finnegans Wake
    • Un-Natural Selection
Three Poems for Mad Anne
  • Earl Mohn
    • Scratchings
    • Dirge and Recovery
    • The Poet at Work
  • James E. Schevill
    • Man Alone
Two Poems
  • William Jay Smith
    • Elegy
    • A Plaque for Forest Park
  • Stephen Stepanchev
    • Strength to War
  • Lynn Riggs
    • Morning: Wartime
  • Patrick Evans
    • Poem from the Autobiography of an Old Landowner, Who Died Recently
  • Howard Nemerov
    • Sigmund Freud
Four Poems
  • Randall Jarrell
    • Absent with Official Leave
    • Port of Embarkation
    • Come to the Stone. . . .
    • The Emancipators
  • Roy Fuller
    • Spring 1943
  • John Hay
    • Lebensraum
Five Poems
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • Reflection by a Mailbox
    • The Daughters of the Horseleech
    • This Day This World
    • Between the Acts
    • What Have You Done?
  • Peter De Vries
    • A Note on This Issue
Reviews
  • Thomas Howells
    • Public Speaking and Private Glimpses
  • Edwin Honig
    • Three Mythmakers
  • Milton Hindus
    • Modernity and Convention
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Louis Aragon
  • Ted Boorum
  • Peter De Vries
  • Patrick Evans
  • Roy Fuller
  • John Hay
  • Milton Hindus
  • Edwin Honig
  • Thomas Howells
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Earl Mohn
  • Howard Nemerov
  • Lynn Riggs
  • James E. Schevill
  • Karl Shapiro
  • William Jay Smith
  • Stephen Stepanchev
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