Skip to Content

December 1939

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

This issue is sold out.

Charles Abbott
Giuseppe Borgese
Kenneth Alling
Tom Boggs
Paul Engle

See Table of Contents

Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1939

Table of Contents

Our Human Strength

Paul Engle
- Extreme
- Weather
- Divination
- Moving In
- Bird
- Fern
- Our Human Strength

Two Poems

T. C. Wilson
- When the Time Is Up
- Song ("The nuptial fetes...")

Four Poems

Winfield Townley Scott

Virginia Moore
- Angels...
Hugh MacDiarmid
- Of Life and Death

Two Poems

Ralph Gustafson
- Begin Living O How
- We Shall Know Hurt

Anne Young
- Pastoral

Three Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Room
- Portrait
- Iron Urn

Tom Boggs
- Bells

Four Poems

Robert Friend

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
- Outline of a Poetics: Part I
Delmore Schwartz
- Rimbaud in Our Time

Reviews

William Empson
- A Masterly Synthesis
Nelson Algren
- Sentiment with Terror
Morgan Blum
- Manhattan Apocalypse

Contributors
- - Paul Engle
  - T. C. Wilson
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Virginia Moore
  - Hugh MacDiarmid
- - Ralph Gustafson
  - Anne Young
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Tom Boggs
  - Robert Friend
- - Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
  - Delmore Schwartz
  - William Empson
  - Nelson Algren
  - Morgan Blum