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July 1947

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Brewster Ghiselin
George Dillon
Dorothy Alyea
Inez Boulton
Florence Brownell

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems

A. M. Klein

Peter Viereck
- "Vale" from Carthage
Dorothy Collins Alyea
- Hard Rain
Hayden Carruth
- The University of Chicago
Anne Ridler
- Poem
Francis C. Cook
- The Dead Hand
William Fense Weaver
- Michelangelo

Three Poems

Jean Burden

Vernon Scannell
- Love among the Tumblers
Florence Kerr Brownell
- Duality

Two Poems

Inez Boulton
- Waken Slowly!
- To Mr. Muscles

Maurice Johnson
- The Beach before Midnight
Theodore Roethke
- The Long Alley

Hermann Hesse
- "Bad" Poetry
Clyde W. Park
- A Note on Hermann Hesse's Verse

Reviews

William Meredith
- A Good Modern Poet and a Modern Tradition
Mary N. S. Whiteley
- Savagely A Maker
Warren Beck
- From the Most Mandrake Forest
Harvey Curtis Webster
- A Difficult Career
Jessica Nelson North
- Romantic History

Contributors
- - A. M. Klein
  - Peter Viereck
  - Dorothy Collins Alyea
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Anne Ridler
  - Francis C. Cook
  - William Fense Weaver
- - Jean Burden
  - Vernon Scannell
  - Florence Kerr Brownell
  - Inez Boulton
  - Maurice Johnson
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Hermann Hesse
- - Clyde W. Park
  - William Meredith
  - Mary N. S. Whiteley
  - Warren Beck
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Jessica Nelson North