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October 1939

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Giuseppe Borgese
James Daly
Babette Deutsch
Robinson Jeffers
Maurice Lesemann

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1939

Table of Contents

Robinson Jeffers
- Come, Little Birds
Maurice Lesemann
- Mountain Quail

From "Cafes and Cathedrals"

C. F. MacIntyre

Babette Deutsch
- Escape Denied
David Ross
- Morning's Not in Our Time

Celestial Science

Kathryn Worth

Two Poems

Michael Roberts
- The Death
- Rockall

Four Poems

James Daly

Muriel Rukeyser
- Elegy
Delmore Schwartz
- The Enigma of Robinson Jeffers

Reviews

Paul Rosenfeld
- Under Angry Constellations
Kenneth Burke
- On Poetry and Poetics

Contributors
- - Robinson Jeffers
  - Maurice Lesemann
  - C. F. MacIntyre
  - Babette Deutsch
- - David Ross
  - Kathryn Worth
  - Michael Roberts
  - James Daly
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Delmore Schwartz
  - Paul Rosenfeld
  - Kenneth Burke