[2] Williams desired to create a distinctly American form of art free of the literary tradition running throughout the work of T. S. Eliot.
These issues were cheaply made, contained no advertisements or tables of contents, and suffered from multiple typographical errors.
[1] Although it published early work from writers, including H.D., Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Williams, McAlmon, and Mina Loy, the magazine was never financially successful, and its circulation is estimated to have been around two hundred subscribers during the first run.
This bibliography, compiled by David Moss, was too large to publish in a single edition of Contact and therefore ran over the course of all three of the 1932 issues.
In addition, the second run of Contact contained chapters from West's novel Miss Lonelyhearts and four poems by E. E. Cummings.