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August 1944

 
  • Joseph Axelrod
  • Marian Castleman
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Don Gordon
  • Rolfe Humphries
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Vacationists

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For a Soldier's Birthday

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Embarkation

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • P. K. Page
    • Vacationists
    • The Sick
    • The Dreamer
    • Quarrel
    • Element
Two Poems
  • Eve Merriam
    • For a Soldier's Birthday
    • The Dusty Young Men
Six Poems
  • Ray Smith
    • Embarkation
    • The Dear Dark Head
    • Tonight
    • They
    • Stonehenge
    • The Breathless Aisle
  • Don Gordon
    • The Beachhead
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • Coming Home
Two Poems
  • Byron Vazakas
    • Skyscraper
    • The Hotel in the Glen
  • Robert A. Johnston
    • Stop And
The Faraway Island
  • Babette Deutsch
    • On the Beach
    • The Two Voices
    • Sankaty at Sunset
    • On the Cliff
  • Selwyn S. Schwartz
    • Mother Earth
Five Poems
  • Randall Jarrell
    • A Lullaby
    • A Front
    • Losses
    • The Angels at Hamburg
    • The Sick Nought
  • Milton A. Kaplan
    • Radio and Poetry
  • D. S. Savage
    • Criticism and Orthodoxy
Reviews
  • E. S. Forgotson
    • Anger and the Fullness of Reality
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
    • Bartenders, Blondes, Salesmen, Etc.
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Babette Deutsch
  • E. S. Forgotson
  • Don Gordon
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Robert A. Johnston
  • Milton A. Kaplan
  • Eve Merriam
  • P. K. Page
  • D. S. Savage
  • Selwyn S. Schwartz
  • Ray Smith
  • Ruth Dart Stephan
  • Byron Vazakas
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