Journal Issue
A History of Philosophy and Charm for Raising the Adversary give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Across 16 poems, rhyme often serves as a way of tightening turns of thought: brief lyrics sit beside longer stanzaic arguments, while the sequence of titles keeps the pacing exact. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. The movement from A History of Philosophy to Charm for Raising the Adversary gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.
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- A History of Philosophy — Myron H. Broomell [Poem, p. 3]
- The Reconquest — Myron H. Broomell [Poem, p. 4]
- Wink — E. L. Mayo [Poem, p. 5]
- Airplane Overhead — Grover Jacoby [Poem, p. 6]
- Unfinished Sonnet — Leslie Nelson Jennings [Poem, p. 7]
- Lines for Ourselves — Elma Dean [Poem, p. 8]
- This World Being Round — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 9]
- Avowal — Oliver Hale [Poem, p. 10]
- The Perennials — Oliver Hale [Poem, p. 11]
- Music Entwines Me — Eric Nixon [Poem, p. 12]
- Act III, Scene III — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 13]
- Departure — S. Thomas Ansell [Poem, p. 14]
- Midnight Streets — Louis Ginsberg [Poem, p. 15]
- The Encysted Ego — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 16]
- The Norm — Byron Herbert Reece [Poem, p. 17]
- Charm for Raising the Adversary — Rachel Harris Campbell [Poem, p. 18]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 19]
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Copyright 1952 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1952 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Recurrence*, vol. II, no. 7, Winter 1952. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.