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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1949

July 1949

 
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Tom Boggs
  • Claire Burch
  • E. Cummings
  • Leah Drake
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From this Issue

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("if a cheerfulest Elephantangel-child..")

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A Graver Story

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The Match

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • E. E. Cummings
    • ("if a cheerfulest Elephantangel-child..")
    • ("a thrown a...")
    • ("open his head,baby...")
    • ("possibly thrice we glimpsed")
    • ("(im)c-a-t(mo)...")
    • ("in/Spring comes(no-...")
    • ("now all the fingers of this tree...")
  • Edwin Honig
    • A Graver Story
Two Poems
  • Theodore Weiss
    • The Match
    • The Dance Called David
Two Poems
  • David Wagoner
    • Mice in Halo
    • Vigil
Two Poems
  • Stanley Moss
    • Sestina: The Ships Go Nowhere
    • And Now There Is No Place to Look
  • Nicholas Moore
    • The Azure Tower
Criticism
  • Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
    • Rococo: The Poetry of Sacheverell Sitwell
Reviews
  • William Troy
    • Poetry and "The Non-Euclidean Predicament"
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • A Simple Theme
  • Paul Goodman
    • The Choral Odes of Dr. Sitwell
  • Ray B. West Jr.
    • The Imagistic Vision
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Cherchez L'Homme
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
  • Hayden Carruth
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Paul Goodman
  • Edwin Honig
  • Nicholas Moore
  • Stanley Moss
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • William Troy
  • David Wagoner
  • Theodore Weiss
  • Ray B. West Jr.
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