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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1956

September 1956

 
  • George Abbe
  • Lucile Adler
  • Landis Everson
  • Ora Hull
  • Donald Justice
Table of Contents

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Beauty and the Beast

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Sayings from the Northern Ice

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Variations on a Neo-Classic Theme

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Beauty and the Beast
    • Icos
    • Reflections
    • Reeds
    • Tramontana at Lerici
    • Ponte Veneziano
    • The Mausoleum
Three Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
  • William E. Stafford
    • Sayings from the Northern Ice
    • The Bravery of Love
Two Poems
  • Donald Justice
    • Variations on a Neo-Classic Theme
    • Here in Katmandu
  • John Logan
    • Reflection on the Date of a Book: October 26
Two Poems
  • Landis Everson
    • Famine
    • The Last Marriage
  • George Abbe
    • The Bridge
Two Poems
Two Poems
Eight Poems
  • Howard Nemerov
    • Cloud-Seeding
    • A Clock with No Hands
    • A Speckled Stone Mirror
    • The Battenkill in Winter
    • A Mobile of Carved Wooden Fish
    • The Wheel King
    • Political Reflection
    • Art Song
Comment
  • Hayden Carruth, Jon Silkin
    • The Separate Splendours: Homage to Edwin Muir
  • Howard Moss
    • Over the Border
  • Donald Hall
    • Claims on the Poet
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • Rolfe Humphries: The Ordered Landscape
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • French Chronicle: Recent Publications
CONTRIBUTORS
  • George Abbe
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Landis Everson
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Donald Hall
  • Donald Justice
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • John Logan
  • Howard Moss
  • Howard Nemerov
  • Jon Silkin
  • William E. Stafford
  • Charles Tomlinson
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