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May 1939

 
  • R. Fuller
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Robert Herridge
  • Thomas Hudson
  • Weldon Kees
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Table of Contents

Eight New Poems
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • Sonnet
    • Rendezvous
    • Modern Declaration
    • The True Encounter
    • The Plaid Dress
    • This Dusky Faith
    • The Snow Storm
    • Two Voices
  • Theodore Roethke
    • The Auction
Two Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • The Speakers
    • Statement with Rhymes
Three Poems
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • Day in the Fields
    • Rattlesnake
    • Headland
Two Poems
  • Harold Rosenberg
    • Yesterday, to Us
    • Snow on the Aerials
Three Poems
  • Emma Gray Trigg
    • Hermes Intra Muros
    • Poetry Is Fiddling
    • Austrian Spring: 1939
  • F. G. Weibault
    • There's One Waiting for You
  • R. B. Fuller
    • Poem
  • Mary Leslie Newton
    • Two Fields
  • Robert Herridge
    • Vision with Commentary
  • Thomas David Hudson
    • The Inheritors
  • M. Jean Prussing
    • These Angles Sharp
Three Poems
  • Ruthven Todd
    • Easter in Essex
    • Poem ("The child forseeing...")
    • For Pablo Picasso
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Robinson to Robinson
Reviews
  • H. R. Hays
    • The Expatriate Consciousness
  • George Marion O'Donnell
    • Delmore Schwartz's Achievement
  • C. A. Millspaugh
    • A Long Perspective
  • Arthur Meeker Jr.
    • The Poet as Entertainer
CONTRIBUTORS
  • R. B. Fuller
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • H. R. Hays
  • Robert Herridge
  • Thomas David Hudson
  • Weldon Kees
  • Arthur Meeker Jr.
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • C. A. Millspaugh
  • Mary Leslie Newton
  • George Marion O'Donnell
  • M. Jean Prussing
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Harold Rosenberg
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Ruthven Todd
  • Emma Gray Trigg
  • F. G. Weibault
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