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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1950

October 1950

Rainer Rilke
Edward Dahlberg
Monroe Spears
Lawrence Hart
David Aivaz

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Poem

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Three Harps

Poem

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Turtle (To William Baziotes)

Poem

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The Death of Kropotkin

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Table of Contents

Three Poems

Vernon Watkins

Five Poems

Two Poems

Three Poems

Two Poems

Three Poems

Weldon Kees
Herbert Read
- The Death of Kropotkin

Three Poems

Two Poems

Opinion

Robert W. Flint
- Introduction to "The Oxford Book of American Verse"

Reviews

Robert W. Flint
- The Art of T. S. Eliot by Helen Gardner
John Caffrey
- English Institute Essays, 1949 by Alan S. Downer

CONTRIBUTORS

John Caffrey
Robert W. Flint
Weldon Kees
Herbert Read
Vernon Watkins

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