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August 1951

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

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Edward Dahlberg
Finvola Drury
James Facos
Andrew Glaze
Paul Goodman

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1951

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Leonard Wolf

William Robert Moses
- Mummies from Alaska
Pauline Hanson
- The Ways
James Facos
- The Captive

Two Poems

Andrew Glaze
- The Big Eye
- Henry Buck

Two Poems

Laurence Josephs
- Poem for a World Traveler
- Trompe L'Oeil

Josephine Jacobsen
- Weather Report from the State Asylum
Arthur Gregor
- Octavian Shooting Targets
Finvola Drury
- Those Garages
James Hearst
- The Oracle

Three Poems

Paul Goodman

Edward Dahlberg
- For Louis Zukofsky

Four Poems

Roy Marz

Reviews

Frank Jones
- The Scholar as Critic
Marius Bewley
- Vivante's Aesthetics
John Edward Hardy
- The Place of the Imagists
Morgan Blum
- Berryman as Biographer, Stephen Crane as Poet

Contributors
- - Leonard Wolf
  - William Robert Moses
  - Pauline Hanson
  - James Facos
  - Andrew Glaze
  - Laurence Josephs
- - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Arthur Gregor
  - Finvola Drury
  - James Hearst
  - Paul Goodman
  - Edward Dahlberg
- - Roy Marz
  - Frank Jones
  - Marius Bewley
  - John Edward Hardy
  - Morgan Blum