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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1952

June 1952

 
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • Elise Asher
  • E. Cummings
  • Finvola Drury
  • Brewster Ghiselin
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("dive for dreams...")

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The Page

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Sentences of Nietzsche

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • E. E. Cummings
    • ("dive for dreams...")
    • ("all nearness pauses, while a star...")
    • ("unlove's the heavenless hell...")
    • [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
    • Spring!may—
  • Elise Asher
    • The Page
  • Paul Goodman
    • Sentences of Nietzsche
Two Poems
  • William Gibson
    • Orchard
    • Jack Sprat
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • Standard Time, Ithaca
Three Poems
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • Formation of the Soul
    • End of Childhood
    • The Field
  • Finvola Drury
    • House with Tulips
Five Poems
  • Roy Marz
    • Black Is the Color
    • The Probation
    • Leonardo on the Annunciations
    • The Sisters
    • The Italian Lesson
The Spiritual Canticle
  • St. John of the Cross
    • The Spiritual Canticle
Reviews
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Traduttore, Traditore: Campbell's St. John of the Cross
  • Geoffrey Grigson
    • Poetry by the Manufacturing Chemist
  • Harriet Zinnes
    • Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Aesthetics
Opinion
  • Karl Shapiro
    • Poets and Psychologists
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Elise Asher
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Finvola Drury
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • William Gibson
  • Paul Goodman
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • Roy Marz
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Karl Shapiro
  • Harriet Zinnes
  • St. John of the Cross
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