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August 1957

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

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Hugh Kenner
William O'Connor
Robert Creeley
Joanne De Longchamps
William Dickey

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Cover of Poetry Magazine August 1957 Issue.

Table of Contents

Poems of a Jew

Karl Shapiro

Dorothy Donnelly
- People
David Louis Posner
Ted Hughes
Joanne De Longchamps
- Between the City Gates and the Sea
- Blind, I Speak to the Cigarette
Anne Ridler
- News of the World
William H. Dickey
- A Vision, Caged
Robert Creeley
- Sing Song

Three Train Poems

Leslie A. Fiedler

Paul Petrie
- In Defense of Colds
- Snow
Ned O'Gorman
- L'Annunciazione; From Bellini
- To a Monk Who Found He Could Not Write Poetry after He Had Recovered from a Long Illness
Adrienne Rich

Comment

Hugh Kenner
- Stele for Hephaestus
William Van O'Connor
- Letter from Dublin
Jean Garrigue
- America Revisited
Charles Tomlinson
- Poet Without an Audience
Leonard E. Nathan
- Three American Poets

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Dorothy Donnelly
  - David Louis Posner
  - Ted Hughes
  - Joanne De Longchamps
  - Anne Ridler
- - William H. Dickey
  - Robert Creeley
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
  - Paul Petrie
  - Ned O'Gorman
  - Adrienne Rich
- - Hugh Kenner
  - William Van O'Connor
  - Jean Garrigue
  - Charles Tomlinson
  - Leonard E. Nathan