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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1956

January 1956

Hans Holthusen
Robert Bloom
Vi Gale
David Galler
John Hollander

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Poem

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Nikko Kekko, Beautiful Nikko

Poem

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Lost Objects

Poem

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Complex Autumnal

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Table of Contents

Two Poems

Three Poems

Three Poems

John N. Morris

Two Poems

Ann Stanford
- Lost Objects
- The Measure
Carolyn Kizer
- Complex Autumnal

Three Poems

Two Poems

John Hollander
- The Jewels and the Gracchi
Michael McClure
- 2 for Theodore Roethke

Two Poems

Richard Howard
- Landed: A Valentine
- Agreement with Sir Charles Sedley
Leonard E. Nathan
- The Sky Hung Idiot Blue

Three Poems

Two Poems

Christopher Middleton
- Aesthetics for Benetto Gulgo
- The Suspense

Comment

Hans Egon Holthusen
- Wallace Stevens
Kenneth Burke
- Likings of an Observationist
Hugh Kenner
- A Tongue That Naked Goes

CONTRIBUTORS

Kenneth Burke
John Hollander
Hans Egon Holthusen
Richard Howard
Hugh Kenner
Carolyn Kizer
Michael McClure
Christopher Middleton
John N. Morris
Leonard E. Nathan
Ann Stanford

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