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August 1948

 
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Ebria Feinblatt
  • Louis Hasley
  • Marshall Levin
  • Thomas Barbour
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Equinox

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A Sort of Redemption

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Having to Do with Poetry

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • Equinox
    • Interregnum
    • The Upstairs Room
    • Return of the Ghost
Two Poems
  • Peter Viereck
    • A Sort of Redemption
    • Elegy to All Sainthood Everywhere
  • Thomas Barbour
    • Having to Do with Poetry
Three Poems
  • Desmond Stewart
    • Dawn over a Waste City
    • Italian Cemetery
    • Return from Babylon
  • Gerta Kennedy
    • Tracks
  • Kenneth Koch
    • You Know All This
Two Poems
  • Amy Bonner
    • Island Refuge
    • Curve of Quiet
  • Elma Dean
    • Female
  • Elliott Coleman
    • Baltimore Sonnets
  • Herman Salinger
    • Self-Portrait
  • Robert K. Bingham
    • Jouissances
Modern Instances
  • Christopher Maclaine
    • We and They: The Artist in California
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Letter from John Ciardi
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Some Notes Towards an Autobiography: The Childish Background (II) (Continued)
Reviews
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Ideality and Metaphor
  • William Poster
    • Partly in Earnest
  • Barbara Gibbs
    • The Quondam Unconscious
  • James Hall
    • Gibson
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Parade
Magazines
  • William Van O'Connor
    • Mannequin Mythology: The Fashion Journals
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Thomas Barbour
  • Robert K. Bingham
  • Amy Bonner
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Elliott Coleman
  • Elma Dean
  • Barbara Gibbs
  • James Hall
  • Weldon Kees
  • Gerta Kennedy
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Christopher Maclaine
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • William Van O'Connor
  • William Poster
  • Herman Salinger
  • Desmond Stewart
  • Peter Viereck
  • William Carlos Williams
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