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December 1956

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

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Charles Tomlinson
James Dickey
Rolfe Humphries
Samuel Morse
Wallace Stevens

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1956

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Barbara Howes

Thomas Merton
- Sincerity

Two Poems

Ernest Sandeen
- Pater Noster in Winter
- L'Apres-Midi d'un Homme

James L. Dickey
- The Father's Body
James Laughlin
- How Fortunate
Anthony Ostroff
- Elegy
Gerald Fitzgerald
- Three Orpheus Songs
Joanne De Longchamps
- Delivered from a Heaviness of Love

Three Poems

Francis Jammes

Two Poems

Carolyn Kizer
- The Ungrateful Garden
- The Intruder

Jean Clower
- The Woman

Three Poems

Howard Levant

Allen Grossman
- Trucks

Two Poems

Edwin Gladding Burrows
- The Sound of Love
- Uncles

John Ciardi
- Some Figures for Who I Am

Comment

Charles Tomlinson
- Some Poets on Their Travels
Samuel French Morse
- Five Young English Poets

Contributors
- - Barbara Howes
  - Thomas Merton
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - James L. Dickey
  - James Laughlin
  - Anthony Ostroff
- - Gerald Fitzgerald
  - Joanne De Longchamps
  - Francis Jammes
  - Carolyn Kizer
  - Jean Clower
  - Howard Levant