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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1955

August 1955

Edouard Roditi
Gray Burr
Turner Cassity
Reuel Denney
Dorothy Donnelly

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

From the magazine:
Matter of Fact

By Donald Hall

Poem

From the magazine:
Deaconing Is an Honorable Persuasion

By Merrill Moore

Poem

From the magazine:
Amagansett Beach

By Paul Engle

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Table of Contents

Three Poems

Fixer of Midnight, and Other Portraits

Two Poems

Four Poems

Donald Hall
Merrill Moore
- Deaconing Is an Honorable Persuasion

Two Poems

Paul Engle
- Amagansett Beach
- Sick

Two Poems

Turner Cassity
- Chronology
- Earrings for the Virgin

Three Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Jean Garrigue
- A Figure for J. V. Meer
- Declamation after the Three Bears

Reviews

George H. Dillon
- Style and the Many-Headed Beast
Reed Whittemore
- Sense and/or Sensibility
Louis O. Coxe
- Three Translations from the Classics

CONTRIBUTORS

Turner Cassity
Louis O. Coxe
George H. Dillon
Paul Engle
Jean Garrigue
Donald Hall
Merrill Moore
Reed Whittemore

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