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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1944

January 1944

Edouard Roditi
Florence Brownell
Edward Fenton
John Hall
Ruth Lechlitner

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From this Issue

Poem

From the magazine:
The Children's Elegy

By Muriel Rukeyser

Poem

From the magazine:
The Red Sea Crossing

By Oscar Williams

Poem

From the magazine:
Woman: The Mad One

By Gabriela Mistral

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Table of Contents

Muriel Rukeyser
- The Children's Elegy

Two Poems

Oscar Williams
- The Red Sea Crossing
- On Rising in the Morning

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Gabriela Mistral
- Woman: The Mad One
William Carlos Williams
- Burning the Christmas Greens
Josephine Miles
- The Pathetic Fallacy and the Thing in Itself
Richard Crowder
- Mr. MacNeice and Miss Sitwell

Reviews

Marian Castleman
- Tenor of a Decade
Milton Hindus
- Soft and Loud
Lloyd Frankenberg
- The Short and the Long of It
Julia Le Cour Bowe
- A Latin American Anthology

CONTRIBUTORS

Julia Le Cour Bowe
Marian Castleman
Richard Crowder
Lloyd Frankenberg
Milton Hindus
Josephine Miles
Gabriela Mistral
Muriel Rukeyser
Oscar Williams
William Carlos Williams

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