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Joseph Warren Beach

Poetry

Winter 1955

Malentendu

By Joseph Warren Beach

Well, you have left me, and without a word, Between two tides, the high and moaning tide Under these cliffs of midnight skies inflamed And the bleak morning tide of […]

Poetry

Winter 1955

Initial Letters

By Joseph Warren Beach

These letters in this order ring The faintest bell that most alerts—Like voices broadcast from remote Continents striving to edge in Amid the jangle nearer home. They say less with […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1939

The Quality of Man

By Joseph Warren Beach

Man’s Hope. By André Malraux. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald. Random House. $2.50 To say that Man’s Hope is not a novel in the traditional […]