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December 1957

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

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Robert Duncan
Henry Rago
Simon Halkin
Ruth Mintz
John Ashbery

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1957

Table of Contents

H.D.
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
John Woods
- Poem at Thirty
- How so Lovely Walks the Wind
Harold Witt
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

Comment

William Van O'Connor
- Joseph Warren Beach: 1880-1957
Ruth Finer Mintz
- The Unemployed Magician: I

Correspondence

John R. Hendrickson and Hugh Kenner
- An Exchange on Ezra Pound

Contributors
- - H.D.
  - Barbara Gibbs
  - Martial
  - Edgar Bogardus
  - John Ashbery
  - William Robert Moses
  - Norman Macleod
- - Theodore Weiss
  - Margaret Avison
  - John Woods
  - Harold Witt
  - Jack Crawford Jr.
  - E. Lucas Myers
  - Robert S. Sward
- - Herbert Morris
  - William Van O'Connor
  - Ruth Finer Mintz
  - John R. Hendrickson
  - Hugh Kenner