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Cover of Poetry Magazine August 1957 Issue.

August 1957

 
  • Hugh Kenner
  • William O'Connor
  • Robert Creeley
  • Joanne De Longchamps
  • William Dickey
Table of Contents

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Teasing the Nuns

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The Casualty

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A Vision, Caged

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Table of Contents

Poems of a Jew
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Teasing the Nuns
    • The First Time
    • The Crucifix in the Filing Cabinet
    • The Olive Tree
    • 151st Psalm
  • Ted Hughes
    • The Casualty
    • The Ancient Heroes and the Pilot
    • The Jaguar
    • The Martyrdom of Bishop Ferrar
  • William H. Dickey
    • A Vision, Caged
  • Robert Creeley
    • Sing Song
Three Train Poems
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
    • I Wake but It Is Always the Wrong Time
    • I Force Myself to Watch the Scenery
    • I Change Time and Think of Margaret
  • Adrienne Rich
    • David's Boyhood
    • A Ball Is for Throwing
    • A Mark of Resistance
    • "Travail et Joie"
Comment
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Stele for Hephaestus
  • William Van O'Connor
    • Letter from Dublin
  • Jean Garrigue
    • America Revisited
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Poet Without an Audience
  • Leonard E. Nathan
    • Three American Poets
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robert Creeley
  • William H. Dickey
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Ted Hughes
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Leonard E. Nathan
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Charles Tomlinson
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