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October 1953

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

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William O'Connor
Pearl Bond
Marcia Carlson
Leslie Fiedler
Harvey Gross

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1953

Table of Contents

Three Fables of la Fontaine

Marianne Moore

Pearl Bond
- Sunday Afternoon
Marcia Carlson
- A Masque for Icarus
Merrill Moore
- Poetry Is Also like Riding on a Train
Rosalind Levine
- Butterflies
Leslie A. Fiedler
- Three Poems
Harold Witt
- Photograph of Ghosts
John Woods
- The Visits of My Aunt
Selwyn S. Schwartz
- Marc Chagall

Two Poems

Ernest Kroll
- Homer with a Camera
- April 20, 1953

Three Poems

Harvey Gross

Seven Poems

Ruth Herschberger

Hugh Kenner
- Ezra Pound and Provision of Measures
Hayden Carruth
- From Sej to Circumambages
Babette Deutsch
- A Neglected Heritage
Evan Owen
- Tradition and Forward
Ben Kimpel
- Mr. Morgan's "Beowulf": C—

Opinion

William Van O'Connor
- A Note on Rene Char

Contributors
- - Marianne Moore
  - Pearl Bond
  - Marcia Carlson
  - Merrill Moore
  - Rosalind Levine
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
- - Harold Witt
  - John Woods
  - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - Ernest Kroll
  - Harvey Gross
  - Ruth Herschberger
- - Hugh Kenner
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Evan Owen
  - Ben Kimpel
  - William Van O'Connor