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April 1957

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

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Reed Whittemore
Hugh Kenner
Thom Gunn
Warren Hassmer
G. Koehler

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1957

Table of Contents

Stanley Kunitz
Charles Tomlinson
Harold Witt
- Back
- Botanical Garden
William E. Stafford
- The Move to California
Herbert Morris
- A Shirt-Silk from Havana
- Prothalamium
Gil Orlovitz
- Art of the Sonnet: IX
Ernest Kroll
- Passing East of Hartford
G. Stanley Koehler
- New Construction: Bath Iron Works
- Peace and the Pacific
Robert Stock
- That the Sestina Is What It Is despite What It Is Not
Warren Hassmer
- Cloud of an Ancient Rage

Two Poems of Tu Fu

Du Fu
- Pounding the Clothes
- Farewell to My Soldier-Friend

Alva N. Turner
- Unmolested Beauty
Philip Levine
- Summer
Thom Gunn
- The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death
- Waking in a Newly-Built House, Oakland
William Jay Smith

Comment

Wallace Stevens
- From the "Adagia"
Samuel French Morse
- A Note on the "Adagia"
Kenneth Koch
- New Books by Marianne Moore and W. H. Auden
Reed Whittemore
- Three Reasons

Contributors
- - Stanley Kunitz
  - Charles Tomlinson
  - Harold Witt
  - William E. Stafford
  - Herbert Morris
  - Gil Orlovitz
  - Ernest Kroll
- - G. Stanley Koehler
  - Robert Stock
  - Warren Hassmer
  - Du Fu
  - Alva N. Turner
  - Philip Levine
  - Thom Gunn