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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1950

September 1950

 
  • Donald (Grady) Davidson
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Carl Bode
  • Thomas Cole
  • Cid Corman
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Castles and Distances

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To Phyllis

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The Serpent

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Richard Wilbur
    • Castles and Distances
    • A Courtyard Thaw
    • A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness
    • Part of a Letter
Two Poems
  • Anthony Hecht
    • To Phyllis
    • Alceste in the Wilderness
Six Sonnets by Edgar Degas
Two Poems
Four Children's Poems
  • Theodore Roethke
    • The Serpent
    • The Cow
    • The Chair
    • The Ceiling
  • Cid Corman
    • The Cockatoo
Five Poems: Images Southwest
Opinion
  • Ezra Pound
    • Letters to a Young Poet from Ezra Pound
Reviews
  • William Van O'Connor
    • Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch, 1590-1950 by Douglas Bush
  • Frederick J. Hoffman
    • The Shaping Spirit: A Study of Wallace Stevens by William Van O'Connor
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Chinese Love Songs by Mabel Lorenz Ives; The Cowherd and the Sky Maiden by Esther Shephard
  • James Hall
    • Fingerboard by Marshall Schacht
  • Ray Smith
    • The Lion & the Lady by Emma Swan
  • Arvid Shulenberger
    • The White Bird by Ann Stanford; Theory of Silence by William Pillin; Guide to the Ruins by Howard Nemerov
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  • James Hall
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Frederick J. Hoffman
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Ezra Pound
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  • Arvid Shulenberger
  • Ray Smith
  • Richard Wilbur
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