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July 1951

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

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Edward Williamson
G. Bridson
Virginia Dunbar
Leslie Fiedler
Jules Laforgue

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1951

Table of Contents

Karl Shapiro
- Eden Retold

Three Poems

Henry W. Rago

Two Poems

Virginia Esterly Dunbar
- The Equator
- The Titan

Three Poems

Wilmott Ragsdale

Two Poems

Leslie A. Fiedler
- Your Green Stone Hair
- To Margaret: Against Waking

Five Translations

Jules Laforgue
- The Clowns

Opinion

Wallace Fowlie
- Jules Laforgue
Delmore Schwartz
- The Vocation of the Poet in the Modern World

Two Neo-Romantics

Anthony Harrigan
- First Poems by James Merrill
John Edward Hardy
- Celebration at Dark by William Jay Smith

Reviews

William Van O'Connor
- We Happy Few
Paul Goodman
- Psychosis as Muse

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Virginia Esterly Dunbar
  - Wilmott Ragsdale
- - Leslie A. Fiedler
  - Jules Laforgue
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - Delmore Schwartz
- - Anthony Harrigan
  - John Edward Hardy
  - William Van O'Connor
  - Paul Goodman