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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1950

January 1950

 
  • Vera Sandomirsky
  • John Berryman
  • Catherine Davis
  • Norma Farber
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
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The Cage

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Jerusalem

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The Piazza

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Table of Contents

Eight Poems
  • John Berryman
    • The Cage
    • Elegy, for Alun Lewis
    • Innocent
    • The Wholly Fail
    • From "The Black Book"
Two Poems
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
    • Jerusalem
    • The Harbor
Three Poems
  • William Jay Smith
    • The Piazza
    • For a Deaf Angora Cat
    • The Lady in Orange County
Three Poems
  • Cynthia Pickard
    • The Slap
    • Elements
    • Primary
  • Lindley Williams Hubbell
    • Something the Matter
  • Hanson Kellogg
    • Four Disinterested Prayers
  • Grace Baer Hollowell
    • On the Road to Reality
Four Poems
  • Catherine Davis
    • The Raven's Plight
    • Plato and the Serpent
    • The Leaves
    • Arachne: An Ode
  • Norma Farber
    • Inform Yourself Completely
Opinion
  • Allen Tate
    • Homage to St.-John Perse
Reviews
  • Eliseo Vivas
    • The Heresy of Paraphrase
  • Horace Gregory
    • The Moment of Revival
  • Dudley Fitts
    • To Compel the Reader
  • Frank Jones
    • Goethe: Tombstones and Milestones
  • Paul Goodman
    • The "New Romanticism"
  • Richard Eberhart
    • The Middle Way
  • John A. Holmes
    • Ironic Autobiography
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Berryman
  • Catherine Davis
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Norma Farber
  • Dudley Fitts
  • Lloyd Frankenberg
  • Paul Goodman
  • Horace Gregory
  • Grace Baer Hollowell
  • John A. Holmes
  • Lindley Williams Hubbell
  • Frank Jones
  • Hanson Kellogg
  • Cynthia Pickard
  • William Jay Smith
  • Allen Tate
  • Eliseo Vivas
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