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Winter 1949 • Vol. XI No. 1 • Book Reviews |

New Books of Verse

The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound. New Directions. $2.75.

Other Skies by John Ciardi. Atlantic-Little Brown & Co. $2.00.

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Ten Poets

By R. W. Flint

Ten Poets Collected Poems by Isaac Rosenberg, Schocken Books, Inc., $3.50. Poems by Wilfred Owen, New Directions, $1.50. The Lost Son by Theodore Roethke, John Lehmann, 6s net. Strike Through […]

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