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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1949

September 1949

 
  • Albert Erskine
  • Claude Fredericks
  • F. Morley
  • Myron Broomell
  • William Gibson
Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

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"White thighs, hillocks of whiteness..."

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Poem

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The Pride of Atreus

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Poem

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The Color That Is Loss

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
Two Translations
  • Pablo Neruda
    • "White thighs, hillocks of whiteness..."
    • "'Tis the morrow full of storm..."
Three Poems
  • Harold Norse
    • The Pride of Atreus
    • What the Birds Know
    • Suddenly All the Continents
Two Poems
  • Herbert Morris
    • The Color That Is Loss
  • William Jay Smith
    • Persian Miniature
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • Pieces of Orpheus
An Editorial
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Malediction against Radio Announcers
Opinion
  • J. V. Cunningham
    • The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry
Reviews
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • A Note on St.-John Perse
  • Frank Jones
    • The Edge of Being What?
  • Alison Genevieve White
    • Sensibility, Naturalism, Etc.: Old Canons Extended
  • Ned Rosenheim
    • Death and the Poet's Deportment
  • Rosalie Moore
    • Blood, Sweat, and Poets
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Lectures and Essays
  • F. V. Morley
    • Poetry on Records
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Hayden Carruth
  • J. V. Cunningham
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Frank Jones
  • Rosalie Moore
  • F. V. Morley
  • Herbert Morris
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Harold Norse
  • Ned Rosenheim
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • William Jay Smith
  • Alison Genevieve White
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