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November 1939

 
  • F. Weiskopf
  • Nelson Algren
  • Beth Allen
  • John Ciardi
  • Roy Fuller
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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • Ridgeley Torrence
    • This Light
    • The Watcher
    • Harvest Home
    • Heard from a Dark Stage
    • Adam's Dying
  • Dylan Thomas
    • Poem
  • M. Jean Prussing
    • September 2, 1939
  • Beth Allen
    • Psyche
  • John Ciardi
    • Letter for Those Who Grew up Together
  • B. Y. Williams
    • Inscription for the West Gate
  • Kenneth Patchen
    • So When She Lay beside Me
  • Dunstan Thompson
    • The Artifice of Eternity
  • Roy Fuller
    • Sonnet
Two Poems
  • Nelson Algren
    • Home and Goodnight
    • Travelog
Two Sonnets
  • Elizabeth Sait
    • Casuistry
    • Arcanum
  • Henry W. Rago
    • Autumnal
Six Poems
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Four-Power Conference
    • June Death
    • Dinner Party
    • Dragon Teeth
    • Choreartium
    • In Praise of Hands
  • Thomas Howells
    • Poetry and the Ecclesiastical Criticism
  • Eunice Tietjens
    • The Attitude toward the Poet
Reviews
  • Kerker Quinn
    • German on the Left Page
  • Richard Eberhart
    • The Notion of Hell
  • Francis Coleman Rosenberger
    • Declaration and Discourse
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Nelson Algren
  • Beth Allen
  • John Ciardi
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Roy Fuller
  • Thomas Howells
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Kenneth Patchen
  • M. Jean Prussing
  • Kerker Quinn
  • Henry W. Rago
  • Francis Coleman Rosenberger
  • Elizabeth Sait
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Dunstan Thompson
  • Eunice Tietjens
  • Ridgeley Torrence
  • B. Y. Williams
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