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February 1959

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

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Wendell Berry
Robert Beum
Donald Finkel
Richard Hugo
Philip Legler

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1959

Table of Contents

Howard Nemerov
- Runes
Philip Ferguson Legler
- Landscape for a Wife
Alastair Reid
Ronald Lee Perry
Ralph Pomeroy
Eric Mottram
- The Cat Sat on the Mat
Richard Hugo
- Skykomish River Running
Robert Lawrence Beum
- Sonnet XXI
Donald Finkel
- Loss of Hearing
- The Great Wave: Hokusai
Wendell Berry
- Diagon

Comment

Marianne Moore
- To "Infuse Belief"
Kenneth Koch
- Poetry as Prose
Hayden Carruth
- And I Shal Clynken Yow so Mery a Belle That I Shal Wakyn Al This Companye
John Thompson
- The Function of Syntax
Ned O'Gorman
- Language and Vision
Charles Guenther
- Prince among the Prophets
Hugh Kenner
- Next Year's Words

Contributors
- - Howard Nemerov
  - Philip Ferguson Legler
  - Alastair Reid
  - Ronald Lee Perry
  - Ralph Pomeroy
  - Eric Mottram
- - Richard Hugo
  - Robert Lawrence Beum
  - Donald Finkel
  - Wendell Berry
  - Marianne Moore
  - Kenneth Koch
- - Hayden Carruth
  - John Thompson
  - Ned O'Gorman
  - Charles Guenther
  - Hugh Kenner