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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1942

August 1942

 
  • D. Savage
  • John Brinnin
  • Myron Broomell
  • David Daiches
  • Clifford Gessler
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Manifesto

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As I Lie Both Awake and Asleep

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Mexican Exhibit

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Table of Contents

Six War Poems
  • David Daiches
    • Manifesto
    • ("If the wind blows...")
    • ("This is a strange thing...")
    • ("When I was one and twenty...")
    • From Chicago
    • ("Fall from the slow-drawn days...")
Four Poems
  • Oscar Williams
    • As I Lie Both Awake and Asleep
    • The Bali Stone Bicycle
    • Lines at Night
    • The Final Stand
Two Poems
  • Edith Franklin Wyatt
    • Mexican Exhibit
    • To My Mother and My Father
  • Jean Rivier
    • Marseille Letter
Reviews
  • Robert D. Harper
    • For This Age
  • Edward Weismiller
    • An American Classicist
  • Paul Goodman
    • Faith without Conversion
  • Milton Hindus
    • Modern Poetry and Antique Diction
  • Marion Strobel
    • Many Are Called
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  • Paul Goodman
  • Robert D. Harper
  • Milton Hindus
  • Jean Rivier
  • Marion Strobel
  • Edward Weismiller
  • Oscar Williams
  • Edith Franklin Wyatt
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