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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1948

January 1948

 
  • Elder Olson
  • Barbara Gibbs
  • George Dillon
  • John Fletcher
  • Harry Brown
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Fourth Elegy: The Poet Compared to an Unsuccessful General

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Letter from Madrid

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Window

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Table of Contents

  • Harry Brown
    • Fourth Elegy: The Poet Compared to an Unsuccessful General
  • Richard L. Hart
    • Letter from Madrid
Still Life
  • Philip Murray
    • Window
    • Piano
    • Pillow
    • Ruler
    • Telephone
    • Spoon
    • Wrist Watch
    • Box
  • Ernest Kroll
    • Washington, D.C.
Five Poems
  • Nicholas Moore
    • The Phallic Symbol
    • For J. J. J. Slipfeather
    • In the Course of the Rider
    • Happy without Sex
    • October in the University
  • Coman Leavenworth
    • In the Garden
  • Constance Carrier
    • Death in the Afternoon
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • Nine Poems
  • Karl Shapiro
    • A Farewell to Criticism
Critical Preview
  • Barbara Gibbs
    • The Poet with Wounds
Reviews
  • Francis C. Golffing
    • A Remarkable New Talent
  • William Van O'Connor
    • New Critical Journals in England
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Harry Brown
  • Constance Carrier
  • Barbara Gibbs
  • Francis C. Golffing
  • Richard L. Hart
  • Ernest Kroll
  • Coman Leavenworth
  • Nicholas Moore
  • Philip Murray
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Karl Shapiro
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