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Life's Delicate Children
Rorty, James | April 17, 1929 issue

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This article is about poets. It is about poets and poetry magazines: life's delicate children; the inglorious Miltons of the provinces who cannot quite bear to be wholly mute; small-town Sapphos singing to each other in the pages of little pink and blue pamphlets, like wax-wings preening themselves and murmuring back and forth in the branches of a cherry tree; good little bourgeois with soft spots, one might say, if one wished to be unkind. The editor asked me to read some fifteen specimen issues chosen at random as a rough cross-section of the U.S.' current crop of poetry magazines.

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POETS; POETRY; PERIODICALS; PAMPHLETS; LITERATURE; UNITED States
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