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July 1939

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

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Frajam Taylor
Eunice Tietjens
Charles Ford
Troy Garrison
Josephine Jacobsen

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1939

Table of Contents

Illustrations of the Poetic as a Sense

Wallace Stevens

Eugene Jolas
- Return to a Frontier
Jesse Stuart
- For Archie Wren: Traitor
Randall Jarrell
- The Ways and the Peoples

Two Poems

Troy Garrison
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Girl on a Bicycle

W. G. Van Keuren
- Inscriptions for the Quick

Three Poems

Charles Henri Ford

Two Poems

Josephine Jacobsen
- Immortal Element
- Holiday

Alfred Kreymborg
- Slow Blue: A Feminine Fantasia
H. R. Hays
- Surrealist Influence in Contemporary English and American Poetry
Terence Heywood
- Hopkins' Ancestry: Part I

Reviews

Muriel Rukeyser
- In a Speaking Voice
Rolfe Humphries
- The Other Side of Sound

Kenneth Fearing
- Poetry at the Writers' Congress

Contributors
- - Wallace Stevens
  - Eugene Jolas
  - Jesse Stuart
  - Randall Jarrell
  - Troy Garrison
- - W. G. Van Keuren
  - Charles Henri Ford
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Alfred Kreymborg
  - H. R. Hays