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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1957

September 1957

 
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Robert Duncan
  • Isabella Gardner
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Carol Hall
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Incantatory Poem

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A Garden Shut

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Seven Streams of Nevis

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Table of Contents

  • Jean Garrigue
    • Incantatory Poem
    • The Chess Dance
  • Jay Macpherson
    • A Garden Shut
    • The Old Man
    • A World of Words
    • Like Adamant
    • Inside the Angel
  • Galway Kinnell
    • Seven Streams of Nevis
  • Robert Duncan
    • A Morning Letter
    • The Temple of the Animals
    • There's Too Much Sea on the Big Sur
    • Poem ("When the immortal blond...")
    • A Ride to the Sea
  • James Wright
    • The Morality of Poetry
    • Nightpiece
  • Isabella Gardner
    • The Widow's Yard
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • Rain in Jackson Heights
    • Among the Paeligni
  • David Wagoner
    • The Migration
    • Elegy for a Distant Relative
    • The Man from the Top of the Mind
Comment
  • Karl Shapiro
    • A Commemoration: "Les Fleurs du Mal", 1857-1957
  • Frederick Eckman
    • Neither Tame nor Fleecy
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robert Duncan
  • Frederick Eckman
  • Isabella Gardner
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Jay Macpherson
  • Karl Shapiro
  • David Wagoner
  • James Wright
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