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December 1951

 
  • R. Blackmur
  • Myron Broomell
  • Louis Coxe
  • Robert Graves
  • Frank O'Hara
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With the Gift of a Ring

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The Pear

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The Secretary

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • Robert Graves
    • With the Gift of a Ring
    • Cry Faugh!
    • The Foreboding
    • The Straw
    • Hercules at Nemea
Three Poems
  • Ruth Stone
    • The Pear
    • The Mother
    • Union
  • Myron H. Broomell
    • The Secretary
Two Poems
  • Stephen Stepanchev
    • The Red Lily
    • Crows over the Wheatfield
  • Winthrop Palmer
    • Immaculate Conception
  • Frank O’Hara
    • Ann Arbor Variations
Two Poems
  • Byron Vazakas
    • Night Fugue
    • Kleptomane
Two Poems
  • George Witter Sherman
    • Spring of the Embargo
    • The Spec
  • R. P. Blackmur
    • Mr. Virtue and the Three Bears
Four Poems
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • Magnetic Pole, True Pole, Axis of Torque, Axis of Spin
    • Death of Don Juan
    • Magna Mater
    • Ex Machina
Reviews
  • Dudley Fitts
    • O Dulce Convivium!
Opinion
  • Edward Williamson
    • Contemporary Italian Poetry
CONTRIBUTORS
  • R. P. Blackmur
  • Myron H. Broomell
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • Dudley Fitts
  • Robert Graves
  • Frank O’Hara
  • Winthrop Palmer
  • George Witter Sherman
  • Stephen Stepanchev
  • Ruth Stone
  • Byron Vazakas
  • Edward Williamson
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