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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1972

May 1972

 
  • Jack Anderson
  • John Comer
  • Greg Kuzma
  • W. Merwin
  • Charles Molesworth
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A Garden of Situations

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The Slow Year

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The Age of Carpets

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Table of Contents

  • Jack Anderson
    • A Garden of Situations
    • A Poet's Guide to the Subway
  • Barry Spacks
    • The Slow Year
    • A Quiet Day
    • Malediction
  • Greg Kuzma
    • The Age of Carpets
    • The Process
    • House
    • The Face
  • Lisel Mueller
    • Historical Museum, Manitoulin Island
  • W. S. Merwin
    • The Chase
    • The Day
    • Song of Man Chipping an Arrowhead
    • The Second Time
    • Exercise
    • A Purgatory
    • Animals from Mountains
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • A Small Excursion
    • Since You Asked Me .
Comment
  • William Hunt
    • Una Voce Poco Fa
  • James Naiden
    • Six Variations
    • Against Emptiness, by Paul Zweig
    • The Gallery Goers, by Raymond DiPalma
    • Leaving by the Closet Door, by Stephen Shrader
    • Collected Poems 1968: My Life by Water, by Lorine Niedecker
    • The Intricate Land, by John Knoepfle
    • Argument for Love, by James Humphrey
Contents
  • Charles Molesworth
    • Some Locals
    • Twenty Poems, by John Haines
    • In the Happy Valley, by Tony Connor
    • Earth Meditations: One to Five, by Mike Doyle
    • Poems: 1962-69, by Jeff Nuttall
    • Ransoms, by Leslie Norris
    • Selected Poems: 1920/1970, by R. G. Everson
    • Pop. By 1940: 40,000, by Harold Witt
    • Nights of Naomi (Plus 2 Songs), by Bill Knott
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jack Anderson
  • William Hunt
  • Greg Kuzma
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Charles Molesworth
  • Lisel Mueller
  • James Naiden
  • Barry Spacks
  • Mona Van Duyn
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