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August 1943

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

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Edwin Honig
William O'Connor
John Pudney
Peter De Vries
Richard Crowder

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1943

Table of Contents

Seven Poems

Karl Shapiro

Louis Aragon
- Petite Suite Sans Fil

Two Poems

Ted Boorum
- Finnegans Wake
- Un-Natural Selection

Three Poems for Mad Anne

Earl Mohn

James E. Schevill
- Man Alone

Two Poems

William Jay Smith
- Elegy
- A Plaque for Forest Park

Stephen Stepanchev
- Strength to War
Lynn Riggs
- Morning: Wartime
Patrick Evans
- Poem from the Autobiography of an Old Landowner, Who Died Recently
Howard Nemerov
- Sigmund Freud

Four Poems

Randall Jarrell

Roy Fuller
- Spring 1943
John Hay
- Lebensraum

Five Poems

Stanley Kunitz

Peter De Vries
- A Note on This Issue

Reviews

Thomas Howells
- Public Speaking and Private Glimpses
Edwin Honig
- Three Mythmakers
Milton Hindus
- Modernity and Convention

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Louis Aragon
  - Ted Boorum
  - Earl Mohn
  - James E. Schevill
  - William Jay Smith
- - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Lynn Riggs
  - Patrick Evans
  - Howard Nemerov
  - Randall Jarrell
  - Roy Fuller
- - John Hay
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Peter De Vries
  - Thomas Howells
  - Edwin Honig
  - Milton Hindus