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August 1952

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

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John McCormick
Jacques Maritain
Gottfried Benn
Jean Garrigue
James Hall

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1952

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Jean Garrigue

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

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
- - Jean Garrigue
  - James Baker Hall
  - Michael Harrington
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Jessica Nelson North
- - W. S. Merwin
  - Eli Siegel
  - Gottfried Benn
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Hugh Kenner
- - Robert Lawrence Beum
  - John Fandel
  - Gerald A. Smith
  - Nat Herz