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December 1964

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

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Marvin Bell
Kenneth Burke
Gaius Catullus
William Dickey
Paul Engle

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1964

Table of Contents

Gaius Valerius Catullus
- Versions of Catullus: Quod Mihi Fortuna
Amiri Baraka
- History as Process
- Like Rousseau
Carolyn Kizer
- Thwarted
Du Fu
- Thwarted [Version by Carolyn Kizer]
Satoru Sato
- Susuki and Dragonflies
William H. Dickey
- Rehabilitation
Anthony Kerrigan
- For Two Ladies Ascending a Bus
- The Zion of Echoing Sound
Marvin Bell
- The Condition
Ronald Lee Perry
- Aria & Variations
Barbara Guest
- The Return of the Muses
- Fan Poems
Stanley Moss
- A Dead Nun's Complaint after the Dance
Saul Touster
Harvey Shapiro
Paul Engle
- Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
- In a Bar near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
Kenneth Burke
- An Assertion to End On
- Here and Now

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Contributors
- - Gaius Valerius Catullus
  - Amiri Baraka
  - Carolyn Kizer
  - Du Fu
  - Satoru Sato
  - William H. Dickey
  - Anthony Kerrigan
- - Marvin Bell
  - Ronald Lee Perry
  - Barbara Guest
  - Stanley Moss
  - Saul Touster
  - Harvey Shapiro
  - Paul Engle
- - Kenneth Burke
  - X J Kennedy
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Henry Gifford
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Edwin Gladding Burrows