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May 1959

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

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Philip Booth
Paul Carroll
Jack Crawford
H. D.
Josephine Jacobsen

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1959

Table of Contents

H.D.
- Regents of the Night
Kenneth Koch
- Thank You
- You Were Wearing
Mary Soles
- Two Poems

Poems for My Cousin

Josephine Jacobsen
- I Took My Cousin to Prettyboy Dam
- Arrival of My Cousin

Robert S. Sward
- Barbecue
Eda Lou Walton
Philip Booth
- These Men
Paul Carroll
- The Cigar Store Indian's Gift to the Puritans
Constance Urdang
- Four Unromantic Portraits
Harold Norse
- Was It Florence or Venice
Jack Crawford Jr.
Delmore Schwartz

Comment

Jean Garrigue
- Dark Is a Way and Light Is a Place
David Lougee
- An Open Window
James L. Dickey
- Five Poets
Alan Neame
- London Chronicle I
Hugh Kenner
- To Measure Is All We Know

Contributors
- - H.D.
  - Kenneth Koch
  - Mary Soles
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Robert S. Sward
  - Eda Lou Walton
- - Philip Booth
  - Paul Carroll
  - Constance Urdang
  - Harold Norse
  - Jack Crawford Jr.
  - Delmore Schwartz
- - Jean Garrigue
  - David Lougee
  - James L. Dickey
  - Alan Neame
  - Hugh Kenner