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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1960

September 1960

 
  • Morton Zabel
  • George Barker
  • Ben Belitt
  • Sharon Bourke
  • Hayden Carruth
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The Cheat

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Our Yellow Kite

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Rome

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Table of Contents

  • Hayden Carruth
    • The Cheat
    • The Saving Way
  • Paul Goodman
    • Our Yellow Kite
    • The Cape Cod Canal
    • Motorcycle Song
    • Haiku ("Sleep is honey, but...")
Two Nocturnes
  • Sharon Bourke
    • Rome
  • Ben Belitt
    • Memorial Hospital
    • Soldiers Asleep
Comment
  • Morton Dauwen Zabel
    • Paris Letter
  • Ralph Pomeroy
    • Seven Poets
    • Ways of Happening, by Bruce Berlind
    • Unit and Universe, by I. L. Salomon
    • Nine by Three, by Robert Beum, Maxine Cassin, and Felix Stefanile
    • The Clever Body, by Melvin Walker LaFollette
  • Denis Donoghue
    • For Civility
    • Emerson: A Modern Anthology (Ed. by Alfred Kazin and Daniel Aaron)
    • Four Poets on Poetry: Essays by R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, and Mark Van Doren (Ed. by Don Cameron Allen)
    • James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann
    • Bird in the Bush: Obvious Essays, by Kenneth Rexroth [Matthew Arnold, Edwin Muir, Edith Sitwell, Thomas Hardy]
  • Carol Johnson
    • The Vision and the Poem
    • Selected Poems, by Thomas Merton
    • Encounters, by Daniel Berrigan
Contents
  • Ralph Pomeroy
    • Poems, by John Tagliabue
  • George Barker
    • The Face Behind the Poem
CONTRIBUTORS
  • George Barker
  • Ben Belitt
  • Sharon Bourke
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Denis Donoghue
  • Paul Goodman
  • Carol Johnson
  • Ralph Pomeroy
  • Morton Dauwen Zabel
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