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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1942

December 1942

 
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Patrick Evans
  • Roy Fuller
  • Norris Getty
  • William Hester
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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How Do You Know?

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Portrait for a Lapidary

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The Wood

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • Eve Merriam
    • How Do You Know?
    • Blackout
    • The Word
    • Above All Great and Public Grief
    • A.W.O.L.
    • Summer Heat
    • Library
Four Poems
  • William Jay Smith
    • Portrait for a Lapidary
    • Academic Procession
    • Polynesian in Khaki
    • All Earth's Divided
  • Roy Fuller
    • The Wood
Two Poems
Two Poems
Four Poems
Three Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • ("Prurient tapirs gamboled...")
    • Note to be Left on the Table
    • ("The eye no longer single...")
    • ("And when your beauty...")
  • D. S. Savage
    • Poetry and Nature
Reviews
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Two Intellectual Poets
  • John Malcolm Brinnin
    • Stigmata of Rapture
  • Jeremy Ingalls
    • The Gamut of Revolution
  • John A. Holmes
    • A Chance for Narrative Poetry
  • Edward J. Cronin
    • The Good and the Bad
  • Margedant Peters
    • New Poetry Recordings
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Malcolm Brinnin
  • Edward J. Cronin
  • Roy Fuller
  • John A. Holmes
  • Jeremy Ingalls
  • Weldon Kees
  • Eve Merriam
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Margedant Peters
  • D. S. Savage
  • William Jay Smith
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