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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1962

January 1962

 
  • Louise Bogan
  • Ben Belitt
  • Kay Boyle
  • James Dickey
  • William Meredith
Table of Contents

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Foreign Summer

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Life of Mrs. Cal

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On My Day Off a Grouchy Poem

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Table of Contents

  • W. S. Merwin
    • Foreign Summer
    • Air
    • Lost Month
    • Reunion
    • Despair
    • By Day and by Night
    • In the Gorge
    • Separation
    • The Defeated
    • Noah's Raven
    • Witnesses
  • Ben Belitt
    • Life of Mrs. Cal
  • Felix N. Stefanile
    • On My Day Off a Grouchy Poem
    • Lullaby for a Dark Night
    • From Some Songs for Billie Holiday
From "Some Songs for Billie Holiday"
  • Felix N. Stefanile
    • Rory
    • Love Song
    • A Fig-Tree in America
  • William Meredith
    • Roots
  • James L. Dickey
    • The Hospital Window
    • A Dog Sleeping on My Feet
    • After the Night Hunt
    • The Gamecocks
Comment
  • Louise Bogan
    • Jorge Guilln
  • David Ignatow
    • Engagements
    • Selected Poems, by Gil Orlovitz
    • Abraxes & Other Poems, by Leslie Woolf Hedley
    • Selected Poems: 1945-49, by James Schevill
    • The Bean Eaters, by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • John Engels
    • Two Religious Poets
    • The Gravel Ponds, by Peter Levi, S.J.
  • Katherine Hoskins
    • Homework
  • Charles Tomlinson
    • The Metaphysicals Revisited
Contents
  • John Engels
    • The Crooked Lines of God, by Brother Antoninus
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Ben Belitt
  • Louise Bogan
  • James L. Dickey
  • John Engels
  • Katherine Hoskins
  • David Ignatow
  • William Meredith
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Felix N. Stefanile
  • Charles Tomlinson
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