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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1958

May 1958

 
  • Philip Booth
  • Paul Carroll
  • Katherine Chapin
  • Artelia Court
  • Babette Deutsch
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The Kingdom of Poetry

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Words above a Narrow Entrance

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Unearthly Toy

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Table of Contents

  • Delmore Schwartz
    • The Kingdom of Poetry
  • David Wagoner
    • Words above a Narrow Entrance
    • A Warning to My Love
    • To My Friend Whose Parachute Did Not Open
    • The Recognition
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Unearthly Toy
  • Samuel French Morse
    • Two Voices in a Cave
    • The Peaceable Kingdom
    • Then, Now, Hereafter
  • Arthur Gregor
    • Song without Words
  • Paul Carroll
    • Still Life: Tankard, Sun, and Avocado Plant
  • Philip Booth
    • Convoy
  • Galway Kinnell
    • The Descent
  • Eugenio Montale
    • Sul Muro Grafito / On the Scrawled Wall
    • Barche Sulla Marna / Boats on the Marne
    • Su Una Lettera Non Scritta / A Letter Not Written
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • Cradock Newton
    • Chteau de muzot
    • In Defence of Metaphysics
Comments
  • Edith L. Tiempo
    • The Cover of Crags
  • Louis Zukofsky
    • What I Come to Do Is Partial
  • Rosalie Moore
    • The Weather
  • John Edward Hardy
    • Stephen Crane, Whitman, Auden, and a Poetry Handbook
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Glow-Worms and Antimacassars
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Booth
  • Paul Carroll
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Arthur Gregor
  • John Edward Hardy
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Eugenio Montale
  • Rosalie Moore
  • Samuel French Morse
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Edith L. Tiempo
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • David Wagoner
  • Louis Zukofsky
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