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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1957

December 1957

 
  • Robert Duncan
  • Henry Rago
  • Simon Halkin
  • Ruth Mintz
  • John Ashbery
Table of Contents

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In Time of Gold

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California, an Ode

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Four Poems of Martial

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Table of Contents

  • H.D.
    • In Time of Gold
    • Nails for Petals
    • Sometimes and After
  • Barbara Gibbs
    • California, an Ode
  • Martial
    • Four Poems of Martial
  • Edgar Bogardus
    • Le puritain et la putain
  • John Ashbery
    • Our Youth
    • The Idiot
  • William Robert Moses
    • Big Dam
    • Grackle Days
  • Norman Macleod
    • Occasional Intelligence by Radar
    • Lament
  • Theodore Weiss
    • The Shield
    • So He Was Sung
  • Margaret Avison
    • All Fools' Eve
    • Stray Dog, near Ecully
    • Rich Boy's Birthday through a Window
  • John Woods
    • Poem at Thirty
    • How so Lovely Walks the Wind
  • Harold Witt
    • West
    • Daphnis
    • Of Various Errors
  • Jack Crawford Jr.
    • Sleepwalkers
  • E. Lucas Myers
    • Journey in the Tessellated Corn
    • Ballade of the Early Seas
  • Robert S. Sward
    • Miss Elderli Dora Des Moines,One March
    • Mr. Middlegreens, Etc.
  • Herbert Morris
    • The Cyclist
    • The Medium
    • The Task
Comment
  • William Van O'Connor
    • Joseph Warren Beach: 1880-1957
  • Ruth Finer Mintz
    • The Unemployed Magician: I
Correspondence
  • Hugh Kenner
    • An Exchange on Ezra Pound
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ashbery
  • Margaret Avison
  • Edgar Bogardus
  • Jack Crawford Jr.
  • Barbara Gibbs
  • H.D.
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Norman Macleod
  • Martial
  • Ruth Finer Mintz
  • Herbert Morris
  • William Robert Moses
  • E. Lucas Myers
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Robert S. Sward
  • Theodore Weiss
  • Harold Witt
  • John Woods
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