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August 1955

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

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Edouard Roditi
Gray Burr
Turner Cassity
Reuel Denney
Dorothy Donnelly

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1955

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Dorothy Donnelly

Fixer of Midnight, and Other Portraits

Reuel Denney

Two Poems

Parker Tyler
- Advice to Lovers as Dancers
- Chez Cythera

Frederick Eckman
- The Starlings

Four Poems

Donald Hall

John Barkley Hart
- The Wife of the Superintendent of the Granaries
Merrill Moore
- Deaconing Is an Honorable Persuasion

Two Poems

Paul Engle
- Amagansett Beach
- Sick

Two Poems

Turner Cassity
- Chronology
- Earrings for the Virgin

Three Poems

Gray Burr

Two Poems

Roy Marz
- Boy Buried on Sunday
- The Blind Man

Two Poems

Jean Garrigue
- A Figure for J. V. Meer
- Declamation after the Three Bears

Reviews

George H. Dillon
- Style and the Many-Headed Beast
Reed Whittemore
- Sense and/or Sensibility
Louis O. Coxe
- Three Translations from the Classics

Contributors
- - Dorothy Donnelly
  - Reuel Denney
  - Parker Tyler
  - Frederick Eckman
  - Donald Hall
- - John Barkley Hart
  - Merrill Moore
  - Paul Engle
  - Turner Cassity
  - Gray Burr
- - Roy Marz
  - Jean Garrigue
  - George H. Dillon
  - Reed Whittemore
  - Louis O. Coxe