Only a few left on hand of this item. 

This is a now rare single 60-page complete issue of Poetry (Chicago) for August 1943. "An Issue of Work by Poets in the Service." A very good copy that has just a slight bit of soil to the paper wrappers. Nice and clean internally. 

See photo #2 for complete contents. 

Some highlights I find include:

A "Correspondence" from "Poets in the Service" feature with letters from David Daiches, Army Major Merrill Moore, and William Van O'Connor, among others.  

The 29-year-old Randall Jarrell, then an Army/Air Force PFC at Chanute Field in Illinois, finds time to send four poems, including "Absent With Official Leave" and "The Emancipators."

Stanley Kunitz, recently drafted, then stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indiana, offers five new poems. 

Pilot (parts unknown) Howard Nemerov's first contribution to the monthly, "Sigmund Freud."

Recently escaped from the Nazis French patriot (somewhere in France) Louis Aragon's "Petite Suite Sans Fil I-II." Translated here by Rolfe Humphries.

Seven poems by future Poetry editor (1950-56) Karl J. Shapiro, then serving in the Pacific. He would win the Pulitzer Prize for his poems in 1945, among other later awards. 

Two early poems by the young (age 25) future American Poet Laureate, critic and translator William Jay Smith, then just commissioned an ensign in the Navy and currently serving near, or on, an island in the Pacific.   

James E. Schevill offers (his 2nd contribution to the monthly) two new poems. He had just graduated from Army OCS. He was 23. 

English poet Roy Fuller pens a new poem "Spring 1943, I-II."

A special "Note on This Issue" from Chicago's own, 33-year-old Poetry Editor Peter DeVries.