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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1959

May 1959

 
  • Philip Booth
  • Paul Carroll
  • Jack Crawford
  • H. D.
  • Josephine Jacobsen
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Regents of the Night

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Thank You

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Two Poems

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Table of Contents

  • H.D.
    • Regents of the Night
  • Kenneth Koch
    • Thank You
    • You Were Wearing
  • Mary Soles
    • Two Poems
Poems for My Cousin
  • Josephine Jacobsen
    • I Took My Cousin to Prettyboy Dam
    • Arrival of My Cousin
  • Robert S. Sward
    • Barbecue
  • Eda Lou Walton
    • Clock and Three Candles
    • Epitaph("A lamb just born...")
    • In Passage Tropical
  • Philip Booth
    • These Men
  • Paul Carroll
    • The Cigar Store Indian's Gift to the Puritans
  • Constance Urdang
    • Four Unromantic Portraits
  • Harold Norse
    • Was It Florence or Venice
  • Jack Crawford Jr.
    • The Wound of Innocence
    • Empty House
    • Goddess of the Doorbell
    • A Breast Humming
  • Delmore Schwartz
    • The Mounting Summer, Brilliant and Ominous
    • Swift
    • The River Was the Emblem of All Beauty; All
    • Summer Knowledge
Comment
  • Jean Garrigue
    • Dark Is a Way and Light Is a Place
  • David Lougee
    • An Open Window
  • James L. Dickey
    • Five Poets
  • Alan Neame
    • London Chronicle I
  • Hugh Kenner
    • To Measure Is All We Know
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Booth
  • Paul Carroll
  • Jack Crawford Jr.
  • James L. Dickey
  • Jean Garrigue
  • H.D.
  • Josephine Jacobsen
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Kenneth Koch
  • David Lougee
  • Alan Neame
  • Harold Norse
  • Delmore Schwartz
  • Mary Soles
  • Robert S. Sward
  • Constance Urdang
  • Eda Lou Walton
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