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November 1953

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

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Harry Bergholz
George Barker
William Burford
Josephine Jacobsen
Louis Johnson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1953

Table of Contents

Four Poems

George Barker
- Epithalamium
- Sonnets of the Triple-Headed Manichee

John Logan
- Mother Cabrini Crosses the Andes
W. S. Merwin
- Toro
William Burford
- Let There Be Light
Stephen Stepanchev
- Say That
John Woods
- The Old Quarry
Josephine Jacobsen
- Florida Friday
Louis Johnson
- The Sandwich Man
Anne Ridler
- A Matter of Life & Death

Opinion

W. H. Auden and Harry Bergholz
- Conversation on Cornelia Street: A Dialog with W. H. Auden

Review

Philip Booth
- Poems of Genesis and Sacrament

Contributors
- - George Barker
  - John Logan
  - W. S. Merwin
  - William Burford
- - Stephen Stepanchev
  - John Woods
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Louis Johnson
- - Anne Ridler
  - W. H. Auden
  - Harry Bergholz
  - Philip Booth