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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1943

May 1943

 
  • David Daiches
  • Peter De Vries
  • Manuel Bandeira
  • Francisco Borja
  • Alicia Cadilla
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When the Tom-Tom Beats

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Fantom of the Freighter

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The Boy Who Sells Sweet Oranges

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Table of Contents

  • Jacques Roumain
    • When the Tom-Tom Beats
  • Pablo Neruda
    • Fantom of the Freighter
  • Alicia Cadilla
    • The Boy Who Sells Sweet Oranges
  • Francisco Borja
    • The Dead Man
Two Poems
  • Ramón López Velarde
    • What Delightful Madness
    • If You Die Unwed
  • Julia Garcia Games
    • Ode to England
  • Manuel Bandeira
    • Morning Star
  • Rosamel Del Valle
    • Shadow of the Fish
  • José Portogalo
    • Poem about a Little Girl Who Owns a City and a River
  • Luis Pales Matos
    • Lament
Two Poems
  • Gabriela Mistral
    • Drinking
    • Slow Rain
  • Gaston Figueira
    • Little Ballad of a Sailor
  • Leopoldo Lugones
    • Death of the Moon
Two Poems
  • José M. Eguren
    • Ballad
    • The Dead
  • Jorge Carrera Andrade
    • The New American and His Point of View toward Poetry
Reviews
  • H. R. Hays
    • A Latin American Panorama
  • John Peale Bishop
    • On Translating Poets
  • Julia Le Cour Bowe
    • Review of the Reviews
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jorge Carrera Andrade
  • Manuel Bandeira
  • John Peale Bishop
  • Francisco Borja
  • Julia Le Cour Bowe
  • Alicia Cadilla
  • Rosamel Del Valle
  • José M. Eguren
  • Gaston Figueira
  • Julia Garcia Games
  • H. R. Hays
  • Leopoldo Lugones
  • Gabriela Mistral
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Luis Pales Matos
  • José Portogalo
  • Jacques Roumain
  • Ramón López Velarde
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