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January 1955

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

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Edith Sitwell
Robert Graves
Robert Dana
Joanne De Longchamps
Pierre de Ronsard

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1955

Table of Contents

Federico García Lorca
- Ode to Walt Whitman
Peter B. Walsh
- I Dreamt the Negro, Beautiful as Night
Ben Maddow
- Elegy upon a Certificate of Birth
Robert Patrick Dana
- My Glass Brother
Leslie A. Fiedler
- The Lion
James Wright
- A Presentation of Two Birds to My Son

Three Sonnets of Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard

Joanne De Longchamps
- Idyll
Stanley Moss
- The Hangman
Allen Kanfer
- Jacob

Two Poems

Neil Weiss
- Lily
- The Hike

Philip Murray
- Firefly: A Japanese Romance

Three Poems

Galway Kinnell

Two Poems

W. S. Merwin
- Bear
- Camel

Four Poems

Herbert Morris

Hugh Kenner
- Problems in Faithfulness and Fashion
Robert Graves
- T. S. Eliot's Voice and His Voices: III
David Wagoner
- Moss's Second Volume

Contributors
- - Federico García Lorca
  - Peter B. Walsh
  - Ben Maddow
  - Robert Patrick Dana
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
  - James Wright
- - Pierre de Ronsard
  - Joanne De Longchamps
  - Stanley Moss
  - Allen Kanfer
  - Neil Weiss
  - Philip Murray