Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1956

October 1956

 
  • Richard Ashman
  • Margaret Danner
  • Harold Fleming
  • Arthur Gregor
  • Howard Moss
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Poem
       That sea we see of surfaces
   Turned upside down would be another world:
A bone shop, soaked in pearl, a dumping-
Ground for rarities, the sea-maws pumping
   Grecian garbage Roman cities hurled
       Seaward westward toward our faces.

       That sea would yield...
Poem
I

Even as you went over, Nietzsche,
in your last letter, as ever, you tried
to reach him:
                     “Dear Herr Professor,
When it comes to it I too would very much
prefer a professorial chair in Basel
to being God; but I did not dare to go
so...
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