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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1952

August 1952

 
  • John McCormick
  • Jacques Maritain
  • Gottfried Benn
  • Jean Garrigue
  • James Hall
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The Maimed Grasshopper Speaks Up

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In Bailey Woods

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Five Poems

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Table of Contents

Four Poems
  • Jean Garrigue
    • The Maimed Grasshopper Speaks Up
    • Gravepiece
    • The Pony
    • Poem ("Fate, heat...")
  • James Baker Hall
    • In Bailey Woods
  • Michael Harrington
    • Five Poems
  • E. L. Mayo
    • Homage to Vincent
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • The Glass House
  • W. S. Merwin
    • On the Subject of Poetry
  • Eli Siegel
    • With Noble Amount
Six Poems
  • Gottfried Benn
    • Psyche
    • Alaska
    • Cycle
    • Icarus
    • Opiate
    • On the Edge of the Northern Seas (Tr. by Francis Golffing)
Opinion
  • Francis C. Golffing
    • A Note on Gottfried Benn
Reviews
  • Hugh Kenner
    • With the Bare Hands
  • Robert Lawrence Beum
    • The Neglect of Williams
  • John Fandel
    • A Rare First Book
  • Gerald A. Smith
    • A Poet of Little Pleasures
  • Nat Herz
    • Communication
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Gottfried Benn
  • Robert Lawrence Beum
  • John Fandel
  • Jean Garrigue
  • Francis C. Golffing
  • James Baker Hall
  • Michael Harrington
  • Nat Herz
  • Hugh Kenner
  • E. L. Mayo
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Eli Siegel
  • Gerald A. Smith
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