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August 1961

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

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Donald Davie
George Barker
Hayden Carruth
Francis Fergusson
Dudley Fitts

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1961

Table of Contents

George Barker
- True Love True Love What Have I Done
Richard Wilbur
- Gemini
- To Ishtar
Joseph Langland
- Ballad of Poor Will
Vernon Watkins
- Logos

Pub Songs

Theodore Roethke
- The Shy Man

Donald Justice
- After a Line by John Peale Bishop
- Poem
Josephine Jacobsen
- The Revolutionary
Langston Hughes
- Blues in Stereo
Hayden Carruth
- Midsummer Letter
Dudley Fitts
- Palamedes: A Mystical Colloquy
- On a Phrase from John XIX: 22
Francis Fergusson
- The Big Branch: A Memorandum
May Swenson
- Instead of the Camargue (1): I
E. L. Mayo
- What Shall I Say of You?
X J Kennedy

Comment

Contents

Vernon Watkins
- Revisited Waters
Donald Davie
- England as Poetic Subject

Contributors
- - George Barker
  - Richard Wilbur
  - Joseph Langland
  - Vernon Watkins
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Donald Justice
- - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Langston Hughes
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Dudley Fitts
  - Francis Fergusson
  - May Swenson
- - E. L. Mayo
  - X J Kennedy
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Geoffrey H. Hartman
  - Donald Davie