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November 1934

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

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Morton Zabel
Kenneth Alling
Guy Carden
Reuel Denney
Dorothy Emerson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1934

Table of Contents

Imperious Ox, Imperial Dish

Marianne Moore
- The Buffalo
- Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain

Toward Winter

Anthony Henrici
- A Trip Through the Mountains
- Our Winter Comrade

Dorothy Emerson
- The Wall
Raymond Hosken
- The Secret Lake

Symbols

Richmond Lattimore
- The Eidolon Again
- Dyad

Guy Carden
- A Dancer

Dahomean Songs

Frances Herskovits

Marian Shuman
- Sonnet
Reuel Denney
- Invocation

Two Poems

Muna Lee
- Sentence
- Alcatraz

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Dark Song

They Pass

Arthur Ebel Steig
- La Passada Folor
- Lamentation

Charles R. Murphy
- The Night of the Soul
Robert Penn Warren
- The Return: An Elegy

Comment

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Paul Valéry

Reviews

Raymond Holden
- The Pence of Persistence
Jessica Nelson North
- A Thin Kingdom
A. J. M. Smith
- A Faulty Reach

Contributors
- - Marianne Moore
  - Anthony Henrici
  - Dorothy Emerson
  - Raymond Hosken
  - Richmond Lattimore
  - Guy Carden
- - Frances Herskovits
  - Marian Shuman
  - Reuel Denney
  - Muna Lee
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Arthur Ebel Steig
- - Charles R. Murphy
  - Robert Penn Warren
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Raymond Holden
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - A. J. M. Smith