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December 1939

 
  • Charles Abbott
  • Giuseppe Borgese
  • Kenneth Alling
  • Tom Boggs
  • Paul Engle
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Table of Contents

Our Human Strength
  • Paul Engle
    • Extreme
    • Weather
    • Divination
    • Moving In
    • Bird
    • Fern
    • Our Human Strength
Two Poems
  • T. C. Wilson
    • When the Time Is Up
    • Song ("The nuptial fetes...")
Four Poems
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Morning Song
    • All Our Answers
    • The Game
    • 1925-1938
  • Virginia Moore
    • Angels...
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
    • Of Life and Death
Two Poems
  • Ralph Gustafson
    • Begin Living O How
    • We Shall Know Hurt
  • Anne Young
    • Pastoral
Three Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Room
    • Portrait
    • Iron Urn
  • Tom Boggs
    • Bells
Four Poems
  • Robert Friend
    • The Impossible Sea
    • Exile
    • The Myth
    • The Somnambulist
  • Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
    • Outline of a Poetics: Part I
  • Delmore Schwartz
    • Rimbaud in Our Time
Reviews
  • William Empson
    • A Masterly Synthesis
  • Nelson Algren
    • Sentiment with Terror
  • Morgan Blum
    • Manhattan Apocalypse
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Nelson Algren
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • Morgan Blum
  • Tom Boggs
  • Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
  • William Empson
  • Paul Engle
  • Robert Friend
  • Ralph Gustafson
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Virginia Moore
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • T. C. Wilson
  • Anne Young
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