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February 1957

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

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Dannie Abse
Wendell Berry
David De Jong
Robert Fitzgerald
Ted Hughes

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1957

Table of Contents

The Ark

Jay Macpherson

Robert Fitzgerald
- Metaphysical
Eve Triem
David Wagoner
- Murder Mystery
- Song at the End of Winter
Dannie Abse
- On Hearing the Monologue of a Deaf Poet
Ned O'Gorman
- The Sunbathers
- To My Father
Thomas Vance
Ralph Pomeroy
- Silence
- Islands
Philip Murray
- Song against Sorrow
Robert S. Sward
- The House
Wendell Berry
- Rain Crow
Jascha Kessler
- Requiem for an Abstract Artist
Ronald Lee Perry
- The Elephant
Ted Hughes
- The Drowned Woman
David Cornel De Jong
Tom Scott
- Ithaka
- The Real Muse

Comment

Frank O'Hara
- Rare Modern
Hayden Carruth
- Some New Poems by Peter Viereck
Babette Deutsch
- A Still Face, but Not of Stone
Vivienne Koch
- Consistency by Devotion
Leslie A. Fiedler
- Memoir and Parable

Contributors
- - Jay Macpherson
  - Robert Fitzgerald
  - Eve Triem
  - David Wagoner
  - Dannie Abse
  - Ned O'Gorman
  - Thomas Vance
- - Ralph Pomeroy
  - Philip Murray
  - Robert S. Sward
  - Wendell Berry
  - Jascha Kessler
  - Ronald Lee Perry
  - Ted Hughes
- - David Cornel De Jong
  - Tom Scott
  - Frank O'Hara
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Vivienne Koch
  - Leslie A. Fiedler