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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1970

May 1970

 
  • Kaywynne Adams
  • Wendell Berry
  • Helen Chasin
  • David Galler
  • Theodore Holmes
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Inscription Facing Western Sea

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Samothrace

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September 2

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Table of Contents

  • W. S. Merwin
    • Inscription Facing Western Sea
    • The Calling under the Breath
    • Sunset after Rain
    • In the Time of the Blossoms
    • The Sadness
  • H. B. Mallalieu
    • Samothrace
  • Wendell Berry
    • September 2
  • Theodore Weiss
    • A Fitting Revenge
    • The Little Red Book
    • A Very Tokyo
  • Frank O’Hara
    • The Tomb of Arnold Schoenberg
    • Unicorn
    • A Note to Harold Fondren
    • Dolce Colloquio
    • Dido
    • Homosexuality
    • Poem ("I am not sure...")
Comment
  • Richard Howard
    • Graves yawns
  • Gilbert Sorrentino
    • Black Mountaineering
  • Alan Brilliant
    • Five Pamphlets
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Wendell Berry
  • Alan Brilliant
  • Richard Howard
  • H. B. Mallalieu
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Frank O’Hara
  • Gilbert Sorrentino
  • Theodore Weiss
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