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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1950

July 1950

 
  • James Parsons
  • William Burford
  • E. Cummings
  • David De Jong
  • John Fletcher
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From this Issue

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("dim/i/nu/tiv...")

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Los Angeles Smog

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From "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • E. E. Cummings
    • ("dim/i/nu/tiv...")
    • ("spirit colossal...")
    • ("jack's white horse(up...")
    • ("!/o(rounD)moon,how...")
    • ("if the Lovestar grows most big...")
    • ("crazy jay blue)...")
    • ("if up's the word...")
Two Poems
  • John Gould Fletcher
    • Los Angeles Smog
    • Along the Highway, Rogers to Fayetteville
Four Poems
Two Poems
  • Melvin B. Tolson
    • From "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"
Opinion
  • James Parsons
    • Preface to "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"
Reviews
  • Horace Gregory
    • The Metamorphosis of the Classical Heritage
  • Arthur Mizener
    • The Tears of the Blind Lions by Thomas Merton
  • Isabel Gamble
    • The Permanence of Yeats by James Hall, Martin Steinmann
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • Thanatopsis by Herbert Cahoon; Viaticum by Robert Thom
  • Julia Randall
    • Walk through Two Landscapes by Dilys Bennett Laing; Horn in the Dust by Selwyn S. Schwartz
  • Howard Nemerov
    • Sleep in a Nest of Flames by Charles Henri Ford
  • Alexandra V. Krinkin
    • Selected Writings by Boris Pasternak
CONTRIBUTORS
  • E. E. Cummings
  • John Gould Fletcher
  • Isabel Gamble
  • Horace Gregory
  • Alexandra V. Krinkin
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Arthur Mizener
  • Howard Nemerov
  • James Parsons
  • Julia Randall
  • Melvin B. Tolson
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