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June 1952

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

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Wallace Fowlie
Elise Asher
E. Cummings
Finvola Drury
Brewster Ghiselin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1952

Table of Contents

Five Poems

E. E. Cummings

Elise Asher
- The Page
Paul Goodman
- Sentences of Nietzsche

Two Poems

William Gibson
- Orchard
- Jack Sprat

Ernest Sandeen
- Standard Time, Ithaca

Three Poems

Brewster Ghiselin

Finvola Drury
- House with Tulips

Five Poems

Roy Marz

The Spiritual Canticle

St. John of the Cross
- The Spiritual Canticle

Reviews

John Frederick Nims
- Traduttore, Traditore: Campbell's St. John of the Cross
Geoffrey Grigson
- Poetry by the Manufacturing Chemist
Harriet Zinnes
- Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Aesthetics

Opinion

Karl Shapiro
- Poets and Psychologists

Contributors
- - E. E. Cummings
  - Elise Asher
  - Paul Goodman
  - William Gibson
  - Ernest Sandeen
- - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Finvola Drury
  - Roy Marz
  - St. John of the Cross
  - John Frederick Nims
- - Geoffrey Grigson
  - Harriet Zinnes
  - Karl Shapiro