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May 1945

 
  • Kenneth Alling
  • John Ciardi
  • M. Constable
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Rolfe Humphries
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Octaves in Wartime

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The Net

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The Avalanche; The Shape of Love

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Table of Contents

Ten Poems
  • Ray Smith
    • Octaves in Wartime
    • The Sign
    • The Dance
    • German Dead
    • The Edge of Cold
    • Machado, Poet of Spain
    • The Beaches
    • To Love a Changing Shape
    • The Brink
    • Men Grow the Gods They Create
Two Poems
  • Babette Deutsch
    • The Net
    • Bull
  • James Laughlin
    • The Avalanche; The Shape of Love
  • Mary N. S. Whiteley
    • Shells of Exile
  • M. H. Constable
    • Have Them Come in by Night
Seven Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Killdeer
    • Moth
    • Crow
    • Batdom
    • Locusts, Etc.
    • Woodpecker
    • Yellow Bird
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • Caveamus
Four Poems
  • Morris Weisenthal
    • Trapeze
    • Darkness
    • Death in Jersey
    • Elegy for Friend
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    • Pietà
Five Poems
  • John Ciardi
    • Reverie During Briefing
    • Elegy for a Seaman
    • Goodmorning with Light
    • Journal
Reviews
  • David Daiches
    • Towards the Proper Spirit
  • A. J. M. Smith
    • Five Poets
  • Darrel Abel
    • A Practice Flight
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • To Catch the Silver Fish
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Tares and Wheat
  • E. S. Forgotson
    • Social Poetry: Four Recent Specimens
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
    • Another Best
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Darrel Abel
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • John Ciardi
  • M. H. Constable
  • David Daiches
  • Babette Deutsch
  • E. S. Forgotson
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • James Laughlin
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Ray Smith
  • A. J. M. Smith
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
  • Morris Weisenthal
  • Mary N. S. Whiteley
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