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July 1954

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

George Abbe
Charles Bell
Robert Beloof
David De Jong
Alan Dugan

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POETRY Magazine cover of July 1954 issue

Table of Contents

Eleven Poems of Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Three Poems

Melvin Walker La Follette

Donald Hall
Charles G. Bell
- Sleepsong

Three Poems

George Abbe

Two Poems

James Wright
- The Resurrected
- Elegy in a Firelit Room

Three Poems

David Cornel De Jong

Marcia Nardi
- Was It the Honey-Hearted Vowel?
Alan Dugan
- Imperial Song for Warmth

Two Poems

Herman Salinger
- Spectator
- Nursery Ceiling

Robert Beloof
- Interview with a Patron of the Pit
Vernon Watkins
- From the Childhood of Hölderlin
Selden Rodman
- Knife in the Flowers
Harry Roskolenko
- Satire, Nonsense, and Worship
Jean Burden
- A Taste of Salt
Ants Oras
- The Estonians

Contributors
- - Salvatore Quasimodo
  - Melvin Walker La Follette
  - Donald Hall
  - Charles G. Bell
  - George Abbe
  - James Wright
- - David Cornel De Jong
  - Marcia Nardi
  - Alan Dugan
  - Herman Salinger
  - Robert Beloof
  - Vernon Watkins
- - Selden Rodman
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Jean Burden
  - Ants Oras