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Word: lyrebird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years neither London nor New York could claim a magazine devoted to first-class poetry. Now each may stake half a claim to a new bimonthly: Poetry London-New York. Price: 75? a copy. Stamped on the sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Magazine in Manhattan | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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