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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1948

June 1948

 
  • Charles Abbott
  • Kenneth Alling
  • Ronald Bottrall
  • Richard Gillman
  • John Howard
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Variations: The Air Is Sweetest That a Thistle Guards

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The Amusing Muse

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Children and War

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Table of Contents

Eight Poems
  • James Merrill
    • Variations: The Air Is Sweetest That a Thistle Guards
    • Europa
    • Kite Poem
Five Poems
  • Marvin Solomon
    • The Amusing Muse
    • Mass Execution
    • Animal
    • The Rutting Season
    • Early Rising
  • Robert Lasson
    • Children and War
Two Poems
  • John Nerber
    • The Grandmother
    • Above Me Perched in Air
  • John Weston Howard
    • Simple Song
Two Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Jack-in-the-Pulpit
    • Dead Wasp
  • Richard Gillman
    • College Girls
Two Poems
  • Ronald Bottrall
    • Cassandra
    • Cubes
  • T. Ronald
    • The People's Army
Two Poems
  • Elizabeth Sait
    • Narcissa
    • La Venta Fantasy
Three Poems
  • Howard Moss
    • Air
    • Storm
    • Mariner's Song
Modern Instances
  • Charles David Abbott
    • Some Notes Towards an Autobiography: The Childish Background (I)
Reviews
  • Richard M. Weaver
    • Etiology of the Image
  • Macha Rosenthal
    • Self-Portrait, with Emblems of the Times
  • William Elton
    • Eliot-cum-BBC
  • Harry Duncan
    • Melville, Definitive
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Charles David Abbott
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • Ronald Bottrall
  • Harry Duncan
  • William Elton
  • Richard Gillman
  • John Weston Howard
  • Robert Lasson
  • James Merrill
  • Howard Moss
  • John Nerber
  • T. Ronald
  • Macha Rosenthal
  • Elizabeth Sait
  • Marvin Solomon
  • Richard M. Weaver
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