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Cover, table of contents, and "The wine menagerie" from Mesures (Paris), no. 3, 15 July 1939. "The wine menagerie", or "Ménagerie du vin" is a poem by Hart Crane and appeared on page 161 in both English and French (translation by Raymond Queneau). The table of contents lists other contributions from R.P. du Poisson, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, St.John de Crévecœr, Washington Irving, Edgar Poe, Walt Whitman, William H. Herndon, Emily Dickinson, Vachel Lindsay, Hart Crane, James Weldon Johnson, John Peale Bishop, Robinson Jeffers, Langston Hughes, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, John dos Passos, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, and William Carlos Williams. Translaters were Pierre Leyris, Ph. Dally, Germain Landier, Fernand Auberjonois, Marc le Templier, Denise Le Fée Fardulli, Jeanne de Wronecki, and Raymond Queneau.
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