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May 1953

 
  • Reuel Denney
  • August Kadow
  • Dilys Laing
  • Philip Murray
  • Henry Rago
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Siesta

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A Lakeshore Promenade

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Winckelmann in Rome

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Ruth Stone
    • Siesta
    • The Wind Fire
    • Forecast
    • The Magnet
Two Poems
  • Reuel Denney
    • A Lakeshore Promenade
    • The City Park
  • Byron Vazakas
    • Winckelmann in Rome
Two Poems
  • August Kadow
    • Royal Poinciana
    • The Diving Bell
  • Dilys Bennett Laing
    • Afternoon of a Forethinker
  • Henry W. Rago
    • Two Poems
Three Poems
  • Leonard Wolf
    • Florentine Sunday Song
    • The Garden
    • Classics
  • Philip Murray
    • De Arte Illuminandi
  • William Carlos Williams
    • For Eleanor and Bill Monohan
Reviews
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • Baudelaire Today
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Homage to John Skelton
  • Martin J. Svaglic
    • The Chicago Critics: Yes and Perhaps
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Reuel Denney
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • August Kadow
  • Dilys Bennett Laing
  • Philip Murray
  • Henry W. Rago
  • Ruth Stone
  • Martin J. Svaglic
  • Byron Vazakas
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Leonard Wolf
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