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June 1955

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

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Lawrence Lipton
Hayden Carruth
Harold Morland
Louis Coxe
James Dickey

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1955

Table of Contents

Nine Poems

Thom Gunn

Six Poems

Ruth Herschberger

Two Poems

Rolfe Humphries
- Wmffre the Sweep
- For a Wordfarer

Byron Vazakas
- The Innocents
James L. Dickey
- The Angel of the Maze
Stanley Rosen
- At Milton's Imagined Grave
Louis O. Coxe
- Prodigal Son
Thomas McGrath
- Same Old Jazz
John J. Gill
- Comparison of Flowers
Rosalind Levine
- Three Songs at Midsummer
Elizabeth Henley
- The Puritan Conflict

Reviews

Hayden Carruth
- Seven Books in Search of a Customer
Anthony Kerrigan
- The Various Depths of the Root
Lorenzo D. Turner
- Words for a Vast Music

Opinion

Harold Morland
- On Kenneth Koch Again: A Rebuttal

Contributors
- - Thom Gunn
  - Ruth Herschberger
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Byron Vazakas
  - James L. Dickey
- - Stanley Rosen
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - Thomas McGrath
  - John J. Gill
  - Rosalind Levine
- - Elizabeth Henley
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Anthony Kerrigan
  - Lorenzo D. Turner
  - Harold Morland