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October 1951

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

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Karl Shapiro
Virginia Berry
John Berryman
James Dickey
St.-John Perse

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1951

Table of Contents

St.-John Perse
- Et Vous, Mers / And You, Seas
Virginia Berry
- This Virgin
James L. Dickey
- Of Holy War
John Berryman
- Scots Poem

Five Poems

Selwyn S. Schwartz

Opinion

Wallace Fowlie
- Saint-John Perse

Reviews

Cleanth Brooks
- Matthiessen's Anthology
Katherine Garrison Chapin
- Saint-John Perse

Two Views of Vaudeville for a Princess

Hugh Kenner
- Bearded Ladies & the Abundant Goat
William Van O'Connor
- The Albatross Was Intended to Fly

Contributors
- - St.-John Perse
  - Virginia Berry
  - James L. Dickey
  - John Berryman
- - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - Cleanth Brooks
  - Katherine Garrison Chapin
- - Hugh Kenner
  - William Van O'Connor