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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1939

August 1939

 
  • Giuseppe Borgese
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
  • Homer Combs
  • Joe Horrell
  • Thomas Howells
Table of Contents

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Sentiments for a Valediction

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Movie

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The Coffin of Print

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Table of Contents

  • Thomas McGrath
    • Sentiments for a Valediction
Three Poems
Four Poems
  • Oscar Williams
    • Movie
    • On the Summer Sky the Airship Hangs
    • Wooden Horse of Myth
    • Three Men around a Golden Coin
Five Poems
  • Norman Macleod
    • The Coffin of Print
    • After the Bombing of Barcelona
    • The Milkman
    • The Girls Are Dancing at Santo Domingo
    • Song When Returning from Cutting Wheat
Four Poems
  • H. B. Mallalieu
    • Cul-de-sac
    • Calenture
    • The Photograph
    • Epilogue
  • John Crowe Ransom
    • T. S. Eliot as Dramatist
  • Terence Heywood
    • Hopkins' Ancestry: Part II
Reviews
  • Alfred Kreymborg
    • Genevieve Taggard's Poems
  • Edouard Roditi
    • The Writing on the Wall
  • Marion Strobel
    • Memories
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Terence Heywood
  • Alfred Kreymborg
  • Norman Macleod
  • H. B. Mallalieu
  • Thomas McGrath
  • John Crowe Ransom
  • Edouard Roditi
  • Marion Strobel
  • Oscar Williams
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