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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1972

August 1972

 
  • Turner Cassity
  • C. Cavafy
  • John Foster
  • David Galler
  • Marilyn Hacker
Table of Contents

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The Pawn

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Injustice

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Variation on a Theme of Cavafy

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Table of Contents

Three Poems by C. P. Cavafy
  • C. P. Cavafy
    • The Pawn
    • The Mimiambi of Herodas
    • The Enemies (Tr. by Rae Dalven)
Three Poems by Yannis Ritsos
  • Yannis Ritsos
    • Injustice
    • Without Position
    • Security (Tr. by Rae Dalven)
Two Poems by Angelos Sikelianus
Three Poems by C. P. Cavafy
  • C. P. Cavafy
    • The Footsteps
    • The Ides of March
    • Theodotos (Tr. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
  • H. B. Mallalieu
    • Variation on a Theme of Cavafy
    • Portrait
    • Future Shock
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • Chanson de l'Enfant Prodigue
  • Turner Cassity
    • City of the Angels
  • Daryl Hine
    • Linear A
Comment
  • Richard Howard
    • Pursuits and Followings
    • Three Poems, by John Ashbery
    • The Escape into You, by Marvin Bell
    • The Night Mirror, by John Hollander
    • Midnight Was My Cry, by Carolyn Kizer
  • Philip Murray
    • Perilous Arcady
    • The Eclogues of Virgil, by David R. Slavitt
    • Sappho to Valéry: Poems in Translation, by John Frederick Nims
    • Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (Ed. by Robert Bly) (Tr. by Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright)
Contents
  • Philip Murray
    • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda (Tr. by W. S. Merwin)
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  • C. P. Cavafy
  • Marilyn Hacker
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  • Yannis Ritsos
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