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Poems by T.S. Eliot:
1. Preludes
2. Rhapsody of a Windy Night

Poems by Ezra Pound for BLAST 2

Note addressed to the public concerning reactions to BLAST 1.

Succinct, nonexhaustive criticism of F.T. Marinetti by Wyndham Lewis.

List of designs and designers in BLAST 2.

Pasted-in picture of a printed sketch of Guadier-Brzeska's sculpture of Ezra Pound's Head. Note the resemblance to Hoa Hakananai'a, the moai sculpture from Easter Island. Also note the sliver of a fingerprint on each copy. The first copy (on the…

Two-page editorial from Wyndham Lewis, discussing the art, the state of Vorticism, and the war.

Illustration by Wyndham Lewis, Design for Programme Cover- Kermesse.

Combat by William Roberts.

List of Blasts and Blesses from BLAST 2. The lists are much shorter than that from BLAST 1, and they appear nearly at the end of the book.

Short treatise by Wyndham Lewis on artists' responsibilities in the war, followed by The Exploitation of Blood, a relation of the machine of war to current art.

Vorticist/Futurist illustration of soldiers marching in uniform. This is the last illustration of Nevinson's used by the Vorticists before he broke relations with Wyndham Lewis, siding instead with F.T. Marinetti and the Futurists.

Partial Contents of BLAST 1 - notes by editors

Frontispiece of BLAST 1

Excerpt from BLAST 1

Plate and text of "Enemy of the Stars"

Short Story by Ford Maddox Heuffer

Art prints in BLAST 1