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December 1955

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

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Allen Mandelbaum
John Ashbery
Edwin Burrows
Paul Claudel
Rachel Crown

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1955

Table of Contents

Pages from Nine Books

Paul Claudel

Babette Deutsch
- Barges on the Hudson
Rachel Crown
- Where Are No Trees

Four Poems

John Ashbery

Alfred Kreymborg
- December Tenth
Arnold Weinstein
- Epithalamium
Edwin Gladding Burrows
- Emigree
David Wright
- A Note to the Choreographer Walter Gore
Theodore Weiss
- Absolutely Roomy
Henry W. Rago
- A Sky of Late Summer
Allen Mandelbaum
- Claudel: The Tidings That Are the Poem
Richard Wilbur
- Robert Graves' New Volume
Howard Nemerov
- The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
Hugh Kenner
- Whitman's Multitudes

Contributors
- - Paul Claudel
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Rachel Crown
  - John Ashbery
  - Alfred Kreymborg
- - Arnold Weinstein
  - Edwin Gladding Burrows
  - David Wright
  - Theodore Weiss
  - Henry W. Rago
- - Allen Mandelbaum
  - Richard Wilbur
  - Howard Nemerov
  - Hugh Kenner