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August 1942

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

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D. Savage
John Brinnin
Myron Broomell
David Daiches
Clifford Gessler

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1942

Table of Contents

Six War Poems

David Daiches

Four Poems

Oscar Williams

Theodore Spencer
- Return
Gordden Link
- The Deaf
Eugene Jolas
- Lorraine Childhood

Two Poems

Edith Franklin Wyatt
- Mexican Exhibit
- To My Mother and My Father

H. H. Lewis
- Insult for Insult
Myron H. Broomell
- The Temporalities
Clifford Franklin Gessler
- Mexico
Alice Monks Mears
- Nocturne for the Town

Jean Rivier
- Marseille Letter

Reviews

Robert D. Harper
- For This Age
Edward Weismiller
- An American Classicist
Paul Goodman
- Faith without Conversion
Milton Hindus
- Modern Poetry and Antique Diction
Marion Strobel
- Many Are Called

Contributors
- - David Daiches
  - Oscar Williams
  - Theodore Spencer
  - Gordden Link
  - Eugene Jolas
  - Edith Franklin Wyatt
- - H. H. Lewis
  - Myron H. Broomell
  - Clifford Franklin Gessler
  - Alice Monks Mears
  - Jean Rivier
  - Robert D. Harper
- - Edward Weismiller
  - Paul Goodman
  - Milton Hindus
  - Marion Strobel