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August 1949

 
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Richard Emerson
  • Kenneth Alling
  • Le Garde Doughty
  • Donald Drummond
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From this Issue

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Bermuda Suite

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Love Song of Judas Smith

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The Phoenix

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Bermuda Suite
  • Peter Viereck
    • Love Song of Judas Smith
Two Translations
  • Heinrich Heine
    • The Phoenix
    • Leaning against the Mast
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Onion Skin in Barn
Three Poems
  • Donald F. Drummond
    • Intuitive Essential
    • The Blood of the Lamb
    • Anthropomorphism
  • Julia Randall
    • Prothalamium
  • Emma Swan
    • The Lion & the Lady
  • Le Garde S. Doughty
    • Humanist
Two Poems
  • W. Wesley Trimpi
    • To El Greco
    • Adirondacks: Late Summer 1948
  • Vernon Scannell
    • Song
Four Poems
  • Laurence Josephs
    • A Letter
    • The Paper Chase, 1880
    • Rimbaud in Abyssinia
    • For the Afflicted, Vision Turns to Stone
Three Poems
  • May Sarton
    • Two Songs
    • Humpty Dumpty
An Editorial
  • Hayden Carruth
    • The Anti-Poet All Told
Comment
  • Patrick Kavanagh
    • Letter from Ireland
Reviews
  • John Conley
    • Hopkins Enshrined
  • Horace Gregory
    • The New January
  • Richard Ellmann
    • Atonic and Archaic Verse from England
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • Hayden Carruth
  • John Conley
  • Le Garde S. Doughty
  • Donald F. Drummond
  • Richard Ellmann
  • Horace Gregory
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Laurence Josephs
  • Patrick Kavanagh
  • Julia Randall
  • May Sarton
  • Vernon Scannell
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Emma Swan
  • W. Wesley Trimpi
  • Peter Viereck
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