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July 1950

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

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James Parsons
William Burford
E. Cummings
David De Jong
John Fletcher

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems

E. E. Cummings

Two Poems

John Gould Fletcher
- Los Angeles Smog
- Along the Highway, Rogers to Fayetteville

Robert Wooster Stallman
- The Kettle
William Burford
- Celebrations

Four Poems

David Cornel De Jong

Two Poems

Louis Kent
- Leviathan North and South
- Winter in Glass

Melvin B. Tolson
- From "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"

Opinion

James Parsons
- Preface to "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"

Reviews

Horace Gregory
- The Metamorphosis of the Classical Heritage
Arthur Mizener
- The Tears of the Blind Lions by Thomas Merton
Isabel Gamble
- The Permanence of Yeats by James Hall, Martin Steinmann
Stanley Kunitz
- Thanatopsis by Herbert Cahoon; Viaticum by Robert Thom
Julia Randall
- Walk through Two Landscapes by Dilys Bennett Laing; Horn in the Dust by Selwyn S. Schwartz
Howard Nemerov
- Sleep in a Nest of Flames by Charles Henri Ford
Alexandra V. Krinkin
- Selected Writings by Boris Pasternak

Contributors
- - E. E. Cummings
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Robert Wooster Stallman
  - William Burford
  - David Cornel De Jong
- - Louis Kent
  - Melvin B. Tolson
  - James Parsons
  - Horace Gregory
  - Arthur Mizener
- - Isabel Gamble
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Julia Randall
  - Howard Nemerov
  - Alexandra V. Krinkin