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September 1949

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

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Albert Erskine
Claude Fredericks
F. Morley
Myron Broomell
William Gibson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1949

Table of Contents

Three Poems

William Gibson

Two Translations

Pablo Neruda
- "White thighs, hillocks of whiteness..."
- "'Tis the morrow full of storm..."

Roger Shattuck
- Rue Durock
John Williams
- The Wall

Three Poems

Harold Norse

Myron H. Broomell
- Of Novel Disseizin

Two Poems

Louis Kent
- The Clerk's Good Night
- Midsummer

Herbert Morris
- The Color That Is Loss
William Jay Smith
- Persian Miniature
Muriel Rukeyser
- Pieces of Orpheus

An Editorial

Hayden Carruth
- Malediction against Radio Announcers

Opinion

J. V. Cunningham
- The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry

Reviews

Wallace Fowlie
- A Note on St.-John Perse
Frank Jones
- The Edge of Being What?
Alison Genevieve White
- Sensibility, Naturalism, Etc.: Old Canons Extended
Ned Rosenheim
- Death and the Poet's Deportment
Rosalie Moore
- Blood, Sweat, and Poets
Hayden Carruth
- Lectures and Essays

F. V. Morley
- Poetry on Records

Contributors
- - William Gibson
  - Pablo Neruda
  - Roger Shattuck
  - John Williams
  - Harold Norse
  - Myron H. Broomell
- - Louis Kent
  - Herbert Morris
  - William Jay Smith
  - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Hayden Carruth
  - J. V. Cunningham
- - Wallace Fowlie
  - Frank Jones
  - Alison Genevieve White
  - Ned Rosenheim
  - Rosalie Moore
  - F. V. Morley