BLAST No. 1 (20th June, 1914)
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Title: BLAST
Subtitle: Review of the Great English Vortex
Issue: No. 1
Date: 20th June, 1914

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'Table of contents', p. 5
'List of illustrations', p. 6
Wyndham Lewis, 'Long Live the Vortex', prose, pp. 7 - 8
        "         , 'Manifesto', pp. 9 - 28
Edward Wadsworth, 'Newcastle', illustration, p. 29
Ezra Pound, 'Salutation the Third', poem, p. 45
        "         , 'Monumentum Aere, Etc.', poem, p. 46
        "         , 'Come My Cantilations', poem, p. 46
        "         , 'Before Sleep', poem, p. 47
        "         , 'His Vision of a Certain Lady Post Mortem', poem, p. 48
        "         , 'Epitaph's Fu I', poem, p. 48 [translation of a chinese poem by Li Po]
        "         , 'Fratres Minores', poem, p. 48
        "         , 'Women before a Shop', poem, p. 49
        "         , 'L' Art', poem, p. 49
        "         , 'The New Cake of Soap', poem, p. 49
        "         , 'Meditatio', poem, p. 49
        "         , 'Pastoral', poem, p. 50
Wyndham Lewis, 'The Enemy of the Stars', play, pp. 51 - 86
Ford Madox Hueffer, 'The Saddest Story', prose fiction, pp. 87 - 97
Rebecca West, 'Indissoluble Matrimony', prose fiction, pp. 98 - 117
W. Kandinsky, Edward Wadsworth (translator), 'Inner Necessity', essay, pp. 119 - 125
Vortices and Notes
Wyndham Lewis, '"Life is the Important Thing!"', prose, pp. 129 - 131
        "         , 'Futurims, Magic and Life', prose, pp. 132 - 135
        "         , 'Notes on some German Woodcuts', prose, p. 136
        "         , 'Policeman and Artis', prose, p. 137
        "         , 'Feng Shui and Contemporary Form', prose, p. 138
        "         , 'Relativism and Picasso's Latest Work', prose, pp. 139 - 140
        "         , 'The New Egos', prose, p. 141
        "         , 'Orchestra of Media', prose, p. 142
        "         , 'The Melodrama of Modernity', prose, pp. 143 - 144
        "         , 'The Exploitation of Vulgarity', prose, p. 145
        "         , 'The Improvement of Life', prose, p. 146
        "         , 'Our Vortex', prose, pp. 147 - 149
        "         , 'Frederick Spencer Gore', prose, p. 150
        "         , 'To Suffragettes', prose, pp. 151 - 152
Ezra Pound, 'Vortex', prose, pp. 153 - 154
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 'Vortex', prose, p. 155