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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1955

June 1955

 
  • Lawrence Lipton
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Harold Morland
  • Louis Coxe
  • James Dickey
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From this Issue

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During an Absence

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Thou Shalt Have Trouble Trying Me

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Wmffre the Sweep

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Table of Contents

Nine Poems
  • Thom Gunn
    • During an Absence
    • Human Condition
    • A Plan of Self Subjection
    • Lines for a Book
    • Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book
    • Legal Reform
    • Autumn Chapter in a Novel
    • The Corridor
    • High Fidelity
Six Poems
  • Ruth Herschberger
    • Thou Shalt Have Trouble Trying Me
    • The Big Buck and the Little Buck
    • The Hiding Virtues
    • Now Ride Us in a Boat, Any Round-Bottomed
    • No, No, I Cannot Tell It
    • Boating at Yaddo
Two Poems
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • Wmffre the Sweep
    • For a Wordfarer
  • Byron Vazakas
    • The Innocents
  • James L. Dickey
    • The Angel of the Maze
  • Stanley Rosen
    • At Milton's Imagined Grave
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • Prodigal Son
  • Thomas McGrath
    • Same Old Jazz
  • John J. Gill
    • Comparison of Flowers
  • Rosalind Levine
    • Three Songs at Midsummer
  • Elizabeth Henley
    • The Puritan Conflict
Reviews
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Seven Books in Search of a Customer
  • Anthony Kerrigan
    • The Various Depths of the Root
  • Lorenzo D. Turner
    • Words for a Vast Music
Opinion
  • Harold Morland
    • On Kenneth Koch Again: A Rebuttal
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • James L. Dickey
  • John J. Gill
  • Thom Gunn
  • Elizabeth Henley
  • Ruth Herschberger
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Anthony Kerrigan
  • Rosalind Levine
  • Thomas McGrath
  • Harold Morland
  • Stanley Rosen
  • Lorenzo D. Turner
  • Byron Vazakas
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