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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1971

July 1971

 
  • James Applewhite
  • James Atlas
  • Etta Blum
  • Stewart Conn
  • Tom Disch
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From this Issue

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Suffering

By Charles Simic
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The Man Who Can Only Paint Death

By Erica Jong
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D. W. Richmond Gives Directions to the Architect of His Tomb

By Tom Disch
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Table of Contents

  • Charles Simic
    • Suffering
    • The Flies
    • The Pillow
    • The Grass
    • The Body
  • Erica Jong
    • The Man Who Can Only Paint Death
    • Seminar
    • The Wives of Mafiosi
    • The Universal Explicator
    • Climbing You
  • Tom Disch
    • D. W. Richmond Gives Directions to the Architect of His Tomb
    • A Questionnaire
    • Phaedra
  • F. D. Reeve
    • Last Game for the New Life
  • David Wagoner
    • Lost
    • Riverbed
    • Old Man, Old Man
    • Fog
Comment
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Poets in Midstream
    • Pretending To Be Asleep, by Peter Davison
    • The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy, by James Dickey
    • Malcolm Mooney's Land, by W. S. Graham
    • Broken Laws, by Daniel Hoffman
  • F. D. Reeve
    • Faces at the Bottom
    • Face at the Bottom of the World, by Hagiwara Sakutaro (Tr. by Graeme Wilson)
    • Running Lucky, by R. P. Dickey
    • Say Yes, by Miriam Waddington
    • Ruining the New Road, by William Matthews
Contents
  • Jerome J. McGann
    • New Poems: 1965-1969 and The Cave and the Spring: Essays on Poetry, by A. D. Hope
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Poems 1934-1969, by David Ignatow
    • Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Tom Disch
  • Erica Jong
  • Jerome J. McGann
  • F. D. Reeve
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Charles Simic
  • David Wagoner
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