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May 1950

 
  • Frederick Morgan
  • John Wheelock
  • Ezra Pound
  • F. Matthiessen
  • Gene Baro
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At the Centennial of a City

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • Andrew Glaze
    • Marine Biology
    • Three Songs about One Thing
    • Antigua
Three Poems
  • Miles White
    • At the Centennial of a City
    • Elegy (For B?)
    • A Stone's Throw
  • Helena Henderson
    • Arrest
Two Poems
  • Wade Donahoe
    • If Not Love Then Nothing
    • A Consequence of the Storm
Two Poems
  • William Jay Smith
    • Marine
    • London
  • Gene Baro
    • Sonnet
  • Philip Murray
    • The Finches
  • Allen Curnow
    • When the Hulk of the World
  • Stanley Rosen
    • On My Grandmother's Funeral
  • Varley McBeth
    • Sawyer
Six Translations from Max Jacob
  • Max Jacob
    • Rainbow
    • Patience of an Angel
    • Banks
    • Hell Is Graduated
    • Ballad of the Country Exile
    • Love of the Neighbor
  • T. S. Eliot
    • A Letter from T. S. Eliot
An Editorial
  • F. O. Matthiessen
    • The Persistence of "Poetry"
Reviews
  • Frank Wood
    • Rilke and Benvenuta
  • Paul Goodman
    • Viereck Revisited
  • Hugh Kenner
    • The Channeled Realm
  • Seymour Betsky
    • Ambiguity
  • Vera Sandomirsky
    • The Forgotten Eve of the Revolution
    • A Note on the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
  • John Hall Wheelock
    • Recent Magazines
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Gene Baro
  • Seymour Betsky
  • Allen Curnow
  • Wade Donahoe
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Andrew Glaze
  • Paul Goodman
  • Helena Henderson
  • Max Jacob
  • Hugh Kenner
  • F. O. Matthiessen
  • Varley McBeth
  • Philip Murray
  • Stanley Rosen
  • Vera Sandomirsky
  • William Jay Smith
  • John Hall Wheelock
  • Miles White
  • Frank Wood
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