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August 1950

 
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Will Wharton
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Ben Belitt
  • R. Blackmur
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The Contrary Poet

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Perception of Rhythm

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Bloodroot

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Table of Contents

  • Tristan Corbière
    • The Contrary Poet
Two Poems
  • Neil Weiss
    • Perception of Rhythm
    • Song of Quiet
Three Poems
  • Julia Randall
    • Bloodroot
    • Question: Of the Effects of Love
    • Appalachian
  • R. P. Blackmur
    • Nigger Jim
  • Paul Goodman
    • Little Ode
  • Barbara Howes
    • Lament
Two Poems
  • Ben Belitt
    • Goliath Stone
    • Bullring: Plaza Mexico
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
    • Scarecrow Suite
Two Poems
  • Oliver Hale
    • Vantage Point: Subway
    • Where Towers Form
  • Marvin Solomon
    • The Park
  • Harry Roskolenko
    • Poems from the 14th Arrondissement
Opinion
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Paul Valry
Reviews
  • Francis Fergusson
    • The Psychology of Art, by André Malraux
  • Monroe K. Spears
    • The Enchafèd Flood, or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea by W. H. Auden
  • Gladys Campbell
    • Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry by Lloyd Frankenberg
  • David Grene
    • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
    • Yoked by Violence by John Pauker; No Moat No Castle by Donald F. Drummond; The Broken Landscape by John Williams
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  • Ben Belitt
  • R. P. Blackmur
  • Gladys Campbell
  • Tristan Corbière
  • Francis Fergusson
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
  • Paul Goodman
  • David Grene
  • Oliver Hale
  • Barbara Howes
  • Julia Randall
  • Harry Roskolenko
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Marvin Solomon
  • Monroe K. Spears
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
  • Neil Weiss
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