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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1956

March 1956

 
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Robert Beloof
  • René Char
  • Richard Hart
  • Galway Kinnell
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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Les Transparents

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The Master

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The Words

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Table of Contents

  • René Char
    • Les Transparents
Four Poems
  • W. S. Merwin
    • The Master
    • Corps de Ballet
    • Thorn Leaves in March
    • The Shipwreck
Four Poems
  • Samuel French Morse
    • The Words
    • The Enemy
    • Elegy in a Dream
    • Edgar, Solus
Five Poems
  • Frank O’Hara
    • For James Dean
    • On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art
    • On Rachmaninoff's Birthday
    • Radio
    • For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage
  • Louis Zukofsky
    • The Guests
Five Poems
  • Galway Kinnell
    • Canada Warbler
    • Ah Moon
    • Peer Gynt
    • Yesterday from My Fever
    • Braemar
  • Hayden Carruth
    • The Fat Lady
Editorial
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Why We're Still Here
Reviews
  • W. Blum
    • A Poetry of Perspectives
  • Paul Goodman
    • Between the Flash and the Thunderstroke
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • High, Healthy, Invigorating
  • Reed Whittemore
    • Childe Byron
CONTRIBUTORS
  • W. Blum
  • Hayden Carruth
  • René Char
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • Paul Goodman
  • Galway Kinnell
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Samuel French Morse
  • Frank O’Hara
  • Reed Whittemore
  • Louis Zukofsky
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