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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1956

October 1956

 
  • Richard Ashman
  • Margaret Danner
  • Harold Fleming
  • Arthur Gregor
  • Howard Moss
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("In my childhood when I first...")

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems for Marthe, My Wife
  • Kenneth Rexroth
    • ("In my childhood when I first...")
    • Marthe Away
    • Marthe Lonely
    • Quietly
    • A Dialogue of Watching
    • Marthe Growing
    • The Old Song and Dance
Three Poems
  • Howard Moss
    • A Swimmer in the Air
    • A Song to Be Set to Music
    • A Marriage
Two Poems
  • Theodore Weiss
    • The Giant Yea
    • The Little Winter Gardens
  • Leonard E. Nathan
    • Between Town and City
Two Poems
  • Margaret Danner
    • Best Loved of Africa
    • The Painted Lady
  • Harold Lee Fleming
    • Sure of What the Birds Know
    • The Lens Grinder
  • Richard Ashman
    • The Crematory
  • K. P. A. Taylor
    • The Road
  • Arthur Gregor
    • A Mode of Hangings
  • Harry Roskolenko
    • I Stole the Mad Woman's Love, the Mad Woman Said
  • Kenneth Patchen
    • Poemscapes
Comment
  • Edwin Honig
    • Gene Derwood's Poems—An Observance
  • Reuel Denney
    • Invitations to the Listener: Nine Young Poets and Their Audiences
  • Frederick Eckman
    • Six Poets, Young or Unknown
  • Frederick Bock
    • The Invisible and the Manifest
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Richard Ashman
  • Frederick Bock
  • Margaret Danner
  • Reuel Denney
  • Frederick Eckman
  • Harold Lee Fleming
  • Arthur Gregor
  • Edwin Honig
  • Howard Moss
  • Leonard E. Nathan
  • Kenneth Patchen
  • Kenneth Rexroth
  • Harry Roskolenko
  • K. P. A. Taylor
  • Theodore Weiss
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