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August 1953

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

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Frederick Hoffman
Charles Bell
Philip Booth
Buddhadeva Bose
Jean Burden

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1953

Table of Contents

Buddhadeva Bose
- Man
Don Gordon
- The General
Edwin Honig
- Island Storm
Dilys Bennett Laing
- Capsule Dragon
Herbert Morris
- Graves
Philip Booth
- Tenement Roof
Paul Goodman
- A Walk (For Noel)
Jean Burden
- The Narrow Room

Three Poems

Richard Eberhart

Charles G. Bell
- Konigstein
Kenneth Pitchford
- Lobotomy

Two Poems

May Swenson
- Boy in Canoe
- The Garden at St. John's

Three Poems

William Meredith

Reviews

Léonie Adams
- First Poems of Celebration
Renato Poggioli
- THe Lyrical Tradition of Italy
Elder James Olson
- Mr. Creekmore's Treasury
Richard Eberhart
- A Book about Modern Poetry
Spencer Brown
- The Anatomy of Eliot
Isabella Gardner
- A First Book by an Irish Poet

Opinion

Ruby Haykin
- Verse Drama on the Paris Stage

Contributors
- - Buddhadeva Bose
  - Don Gordon
  - Edwin Honig
  - Dilys Bennett Laing
  - Herbert Morris
  - Philip Booth
  - Paul Goodman
- - Jean Burden
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Charles G. Bell
  - Kenneth Pitchford
  - May Swenson
  - William Meredith
  - Léonie Adams
- - Renato Poggioli
  - Elder James Olson
  - Spencer Brown
  - Isabella Gardner
  - Ruby Haykin