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August 1947

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

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Marion Strobel
Stanley Hyman
Anna Akhmatova
Kenneth Alling
Kenneth Allott

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1947

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Karl Shapiro

Robert Lowell
- The Fat Man in the Mirror
Arthur Gordon Maling
- Weapon
Marcia Lee Anderson
- Re Joyce
Kenneth Allott
- Cheshire Cat
James M. Idema
- To Pearson
Douglas Newton
- Onionskin Man

Two Poems

Marya Zaturenska
- Song of the Girl in the Red Cloak
- The Black Sibyl

May Williams Ward
- Wet Summer

Two Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Amazing Minute
- Car Top

Some Modern Soviet Poets

Eduard Bagritsky
- My Honied Languor
Stepan Shschipachev
- Here Sorrow Had No Limit
- Duel
Yevgeny Dolmatovsky
- Frost
Mikhail Matusovsky
- Long Roads
E. Serebrovskaya
- Mines
Anna Akhmatova
- Snow
Boris Pasternak

Reviews

Austin Warren
- A Double Discipline
Warren Beck
- The Perhaps Attainable
Frajam Taylor
- Puck in the Gardens of the Sun
Robert Wooster Stallman
- Against the Formula
William A. Sylvester
- Good and Light
Parker Tyler
- Sympathy but Not Empathy

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Robert Lowell
  - Arthur Gordon Maling
  - Marcia Lee Anderson
  - Kenneth Allott
  - James M. Idema
  - Douglas Newton
  - Marya Zaturenska
- - May Williams Ward
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Eduard Bagritsky
  - Stepan Shschipachev
  - Yevgeny Dolmatovsky
  - Mikhail Matusovsky
  - E. Serebrovskaya
  - Anna Akhmatova
- - Boris Pasternak
  - Austin Warren
  - Warren Beck
  - Frajam Taylor
  - Robert Wooster Stallman
  - William A. Sylvester
  - Parker Tyler