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March 1957

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

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Arthur Macgillivray
Henry Rago
John Ashbery
Hayden Carruth
Turner Cassity

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1957

Table of Contents

René Char
Vernon Watkins
- Camelot
John Ashbery
- Abstentions
- To Redouté
Charles Edward Eaton
- The Bride Is a Motive of Memory
W. S. Merwin
John Tagliabue
- Mexican Poems
James Wright
- Aubade at the Zama Replacement Depot
- Directions out of a Dream
Marvin Solomon
- The Chinese Kite
Joseph Langland
- Choice
Donald Finkel
- Two Steps of a Lame Man
Turner Cassity
- The Quarter
Hayden Carruth
- I Also Love Thee Proserpine: A Romantic Elegy
- A Canon for Two Voices
V. R. Lang

Comment

May Swenson
- Four New Volumes
Josephine Jacobsen
- For Both Letter and Spirit
Tom Scott
- The Real Burns
Charles Tomlinson
- The Poetry of Christina Rossetti

Correspondence

James L. Dickey and Rolfe Humphries
- An Exchange on “Delta Return”

Contributors
- - René Char
  - Vernon Watkins
  - John Ashbery
  - Charles Edward Eaton
  - W. S. Merwin
  - John Tagliabue
  - James Wright
- - Marvin Solomon
  - Joseph Langland
  - Donald Finkel
  - Turner Cassity
  - Hayden Carruth
  - V. R. Lang
  - May Swenson
- - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Tom Scott
  - Charles Tomlinson
  - James L. Dickey
  - Rolfe Humphries