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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1954

August 1954

 
  • Kenneth Alling
  • Louis Coxe
  • John Fletcher
  • Robert Francis
  • Isabella Gardner
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Of Asphodel: Coda

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The Sapphire

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Elysian Fields, Calif.

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Table of Contents

  • William Carlos Williams
    • Of Asphodel: Coda
  • W. S. Merwin
    • The Sapphire
  • Chad Walsh
    • Elysian Fields, Calif.
  • Isabella Gardner
    • Southwest of True North
  • James E. Schevill
    • A Guilty Father to His Daughter
  • Ray Smith
    • The Apple
  • John A. Holmes
    • Cow Be Killed
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • Elegy: For a Child
Three Poems
  • Reed Whittemore
    • Ladders
    • On the Unimportance of Words
    • Thoughts of the California Desert
  • Robert Francis
    • Cold
  • Anthony Ostroff
    • Folk Song
Four Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • The Toad
    • Oak
    • Doves
    • Quatrain
Four Poems
  • Josephine Miles
    • If Conference Keeps You
    • Sale
    • Quartos
    • Heir
Posthumous Poems
  • John Gould Fletcher
    • Charles Baudelaire
    • William Blake
    • Sonnets at Sunset
    • Evening of Life
Reviews
  • Ben Kimpel
    • John Gould Fletcher in Retrospect
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Four Outsiders
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • John Gould Fletcher
  • Robert Francis
  • Isabella Gardner
  • John A. Holmes
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Ben Kimpel
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Josephine Miles
  • Anthony Ostroff
  • James E. Schevill
  • Ray Smith
  • Chad Walsh
  • Reed Whittemore
  • William Carlos Williams
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