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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue is from April of 1947

April 1947

 
  • Clyde Park
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Myron Broomell
  • Alan Dugan
  • Donald Fairchild
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Accumulations of the Sea

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Vacation Postponed

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The Martyr

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • James Merrill
    • Accumulations of the Sea
    • River Poem
    • The Flint Eye
    • Suspense of Love
  • Marshall Schacht
    • Vacation Postponed
Six Poems
  • Alan Dugan
    • The Martyr
    • Poem ("At twelve noon...")
    • The Explorer
    • Niagara Falls
    • Tuesday
    • April
Two Poems
  • Donald Fairchild
    • Man with Blue Eyes
    • Confusion
  • George Witter Sherman
    • Epoch
  • Myron H. Broomell
    • From "The City Built on Sand"
  • Kenneth Koch
    • Schoolyard in April
  • Edward Hudiburg
    • Adventures of the Damned and Blessed
Two Poems
  • Herman Salinger
    • Requiem for Pan
    • Morning Visit
  • James M. Idema
    • The so and so Memorial Library
  • H. B. Mallalieu
    • Lines from Europe
  • William Van O'Connor
    • The Isolation of the Poet
Reviews
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • A Tale of a Jar
  • Kenneth Burke
    • Towards Objective Criticism
  • Evalyn Shapiro
    • Revolvers for the Midget
  • Harvey Breit
    • A Contrast
  • John Nerber
    • Oars but No Boat
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Harvey Breit
  • Myron H. Broomell
  • Kenneth Burke
  • Alan Dugan
  • Donald Fairchild
  • Edward Hudiburg
  • James M. Idema
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • H. B. Mallalieu
  • James Merrill
  • John Nerber
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Herman Salinger
  • Marshall Schacht
  • Evalyn Shapiro
  • George Witter Sherman
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