Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1959

September 1959

 
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Elise Asher
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • David De Jong
  • Dorothy Donnelly
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My father kept a speckled conch 
By two bronze bookends of ships in sail, 
And as I listened its cold teeth seethed 
With voices of that ambiguous sea 
Old Böcklin missed, who held a shell 
To hear the sea he could not hear. 
What the seashell...
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