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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1947

September 1947

 
  • William O'Connor
  • John Schealer
  • John Theobald
  • Sheila Alexander
  • Nelson Algren
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From this Issue

Poem

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("this(let's remember)day...")

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Poem

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Teacher on Strike

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Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • E. E. Cummings
    • ("this(let's remember)day...")
    • ("neither awake...")
    • ("infinite jukethrob smoke...")
    • ("jake hates...")
    • ("whose are these(wraith...")
    • ("this is a rubbish...")
    • ("if(touched by love's own secret)...")
Four Poems
  • Florence Ripley Mastin
    • Teacher on Strike
Six Poems
  • Nelson Algren
    • Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm
Five Poems
  • Margaret Avison
    • Geometaphysics
    • The Iconoclasts
    • Perspective
    • Song but Oblique to '47
    • The Party
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • The Architecture of Vision
  • Katherine Garrison Chapin
    • T. S. Eliot at the National Gallery
Reviews
  • H. R. Hays
    • Mirror to Human Inadequacy
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
    • High-Priced Elegy
  • William Meredith
    • The Poems of Joan Murray
  • Francis C. Golffing
    • Bottrall in Limbo
  • David Grene
    • Unveiling
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Nelson Algren
  • Margaret Avison
  • Katherine Garrison Chapin
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Francis C. Golffing
  • David Grene
  • H. R. Hays
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
  • Florence Ripley Mastin
  • William Meredith
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