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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1951

April 1951

 
  • Kimon Friar
  • James Blish
  • Paul Goodman
  • Ruth Herschberger
  • Carol Hogben
Table of Contents

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Poem

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A Conversation with the Devil

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Mare Nostrum

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A Song for Music

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Table of Contents

Two Poems
  • Randall Jarrell
    • A Conversation with the Devil
    • A Girl in a Library
Two Poems
  • Anne Ridler
    • Mare Nostrum
    • On a Picture by Michele Da Verona, of Arion as a Boy Riding upon a Dolphin
  • James Blish
    • A Song for Music
Four Poems
  • Carol Hogben
    • Flower Clock Almanack
    • The Bare Peak
    • For Harold & Elisabeth
    • Theagony
  • Louis Kent
    • American Death
  • Paul Goodman
    • Evening (After Rameau and Cezanne)
Three Poems
  • Ruth Herschberger
    • Our Absence Was Designed
    • Summer Mansion
    • Displays of Skill
Reviews
  • Monroe K. Spears
    • Christopher Fry and the Redemption of Joy
  • Jean Farley
    • The Poet Laureate and Others
  • Richard Eberhart
    • An Excellent Redaction
Communication
  • Edward Dahlberg
    • How Do You Spell Fool?
CONTRIBUTORS
  • James Blish
  • Edward Dahlberg
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Jean Farley
  • Paul Goodman
  • Ruth Herschberger
  • Carol Hogben
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Louis Kent
  • Anne Ridler
  • Monroe K. Spears
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