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December 1953

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

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Archibald MacLeish
Cid Corman
John Gill
Robert Horan
Allen Kanfer

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1953

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Marvin Solomon

V. R. Lang
- Already Ripening Barberries Are Red
Ernest Sandeen
- The Word and the Fish
Allen Kanfer
- Moses
E. L. Mayo
- The Word of Water
Cid Corman
- Backtalk from the Minotaur
John J. Gill
- Traffic
Donald Petersen
- The Stages of Narcissus
Galway Kinnell
- The Wolves
Robert Horan
- Triumph of Icarus

Opinion

Archibald MacLeish
- Marianne Moore: Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads

Reviews

Philip Ferguson Legler
- Marianne Moore and the Idea of Freedom
Parker Tyler
- The Ambiguous Axe
John McCormick
- The Women
Harry Roskolenko
- The Shadow Is Not the Rose

Contributors
- - Marvin Solomon
  - V. R. Lang
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - Allen Kanfer
  - E. L. Mayo
- - Cid Corman
  - John J. Gill
  - Donald Petersen
  - Galway Kinnell
  - Robert Horan
- - Archibald MacLeish
  - Philip Ferguson Legler
  - Parker Tyler
  - John McCormick
  - Harry Roskolenko