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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1959

November 1959

 
  • Ben Belitt
  • Wendell Berry
  • William Burford
  • Laurence Josephs
  • Richmond Lattimore
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Green and White

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The Sea Lavender

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Table of Contents

  • Ben Belitt
    • Battle-Piece
  • Richmond Lattimore
    • Green and White
    • The Pillow and the Book
  • William Burford
    • The Sea Lavender
    • Clay God
    • The Ambassadors
    • South Harpswell
    • The Poet's Brain
    • Law of Motion
  • Ned O'Gorman
    • Two Poems on Larger Topics
    • Great Grandfather, Clamdiggers, and Homer
    • The Summer
    • The Spring
  • David Wright
    • At the Kaiser's Villa
  • Jack Lindeman
    • Letter Man
  • Laurence Josephs
    • The Garden
    • A Mirror, a Window, a Pool
  • Karl Kimber Merker
    • Poem for Con
  • Hardie St. Martin
    • The Wall
    • Snow
  • R. A. Simpson
    • Civil War House: England
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • Last Things
    • News Item: Chimpanzee Escapes from Zoo in Antwerp
    • Bus to Marienlund
    • Surgery Ward, December 8
  • Wendell Berry
    • The River Voyagers
  • Marya Zaturenska
    • Four Ghosts
    • Voices Heard in the Air
    • The Waiting
Comment
  • John Thompson
    • A Poetry Chronicle
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Three Poets
  • Paul Petrie
    • Three Critics
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Ben Belitt
  • Wendell Berry
  • William Burford
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Laurence Josephs
  • Richmond Lattimore
  • Jack Lindeman
  • Karl Kimber Merker
  • Ned O'Gorman
  • Paul Petrie
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • R. A. Simpson
  • Hardie St. Martin
  • John Thompson
  • David Wright
  • Marya Zaturenska
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