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August 1954

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

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Kenneth Alling
Louis Coxe
John Fletcher
Robert Francis
Isabella Gardner

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1954

Table of Contents

William Carlos Williams
- Of Asphodel: Coda
W. S. Merwin
- The Sapphire
Chad Walsh
- Elysian Fields, Calif.
Isabella Gardner
- Southwest of True North
James E. Schevill
- A Guilty Father to His Daughter
Ray Smith
- The Apple
John A. Holmes
- Cow Be Killed
Louis O. Coxe
- Elegy: For a Child

Three Poems

Reed Whittemore

Robert Francis
- Cold
Anthony Ostroff
- Folk Song

Four Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- The Toad
- Oak
- Doves
- Quatrain

Four Poems

Josephine Miles

Posthumous Poems

John Gould Fletcher

Reviews

Ben Kimpel
- John Gould Fletcher in Retrospect
Hugh Kenner
- Four Outsiders

Contributors
- - William Carlos Williams
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Chad Walsh
  - Isabella Gardner
  - James E. Schevill
  - Ray Smith
- - John A. Holmes
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - Reed Whittemore
  - Robert Francis
  - Anthony Ostroff
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
- - Josephine Miles
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Ben Kimpel
  - Hugh Kenner