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August 1950

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Karl Shapiro
Will Wharton
Richard Eberhart
Ben Belitt
R. Blackmur

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1950

Table of Contents

Tristan Corbière
- The Contrary Poet

Two Poems

Neil Weiss
- Perception of Rhythm
- Song of Quiet

Three Poems

Julia Randall

R. P. Blackmur
- Nigger Jim
Paul Goodman
- Little Ode
Barbara Howes
- Lament

Two Poems

Ben Belitt
- Goliath Stone
- Bullring: Plaza Mexico

Lloyd Frankenberg
- Scarecrow Suite

Two Poems

Oliver Hale
- Vantage Point: Subway
- Where Towers Form

Marvin Solomon
- The Park
Harry Roskolenko
- Poems from the 14th Arrondissement

Opinion

Karl Shapiro
- Paul Valry

Reviews

Francis Fergusson
- The Psychology of Art, by André Malraux
Monroe K. Spears
- The Enchafèd Flood, or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea by W. H. Auden
Gladys Campbell
- Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry by Lloyd Frankenberg
David Grene
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald
J. Radcliffe Squires
- Yoked by Violence by John Pauker; No Moat No Castle by Donald F. Drummond; The Broken Landscape by John Williams

Contributors
- - Tristan Corbière
  - Neil Weiss
  - Julia Randall
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Paul Goodman
  - Barbara Howes
- - Ben Belitt
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - Oliver Hale
  - Marvin Solomon
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Karl Shapiro
- - Francis Fergusson
  - Monroe K. Spears
  - Gladys Campbell
  - David Grene
  - J. Radcliffe Squires