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  • David Aivaz
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Mind

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • Vernon Watkins
    • Three Harps
    • A Bell Unrung
    • The Three Friends
Five Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Mind
    • On the Park Bench
    • Letter
    • Pariah
    • Monsoon
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • Ego
Two Poems
  • Gene Baro
    • Top-Ranking Funnymen
    • Buildings Where My Father Died
Three Poems
  • E. L. Mayo
    • The Last
    • Spring Is Coming
    • Letter to My Grandfather's Picture
Two Poems
  • David Lougee
    • If the Seas Unmask
    • My Love's Mad Music
Three Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • Turtle (To William Baziotes)
    • The Coming of the Plague
    • Covering Two Years
  • David Aivaz
    • Who Turn the Tables
  • Herbert Read
    • The Death of Kropotkin
Three Poems
  • Robert Huff
    • Falcon
    • The Snows
    • Burning
  • Grace Baer Hollowell
    • When the Light Is in the Pearl
Two Poems
  • Eleanor Ross
    • The Bine Adkins Rose
    • Sister
Opinion
  • Robert W. Flint
    • Introduction to "The Oxford Book of American Verse"
Reviews
  • Robert W. Flint
    • The Art of T. S. Eliot by Helen Gardner
  • John Caffrey
    • English Institute Essays, 1949 by Alan S. Downer
CONTRIBUTORS
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  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • Gene Baro
  • John Caffrey
  • Robert W. Flint
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Grace Baer Hollowell
  • Robert Huff
  • Weldon Kees
  • David Lougee
  • E. L. Mayo
  • Herbert Read
  • Eleanor Ross
  • Vernon Watkins
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