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April 1961

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Kenneth Burke
C. Cavafy
Cid Corman
John Hollander
Richmond Lattimore

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1961

Table of Contents

Karl Shapiro
Richmond Lattimore
Robert Mezey
Cid Corman
John Hollander
John L. Sweeney
Peter Dale Scott
- Les Bouffons d'aprs-Guerre
- Parole
C. P. Cavafy

Comment

Robert Lowell
- Yvor Winters: A Tribute
Charles Tomlinson
- And the Eyelids Are a Little Weary
Herbert Read
- On Translating Poetry
Vivienne Koch

Contents

Kenneth Burke
- The Principle of Composition

Contributors
- - John L. Sweeney
  - Peter Dale Scott
  - C. P. Cavafy
  - Robert Lowell
  - Charles Tomlinson
- - Herbert Read
  - Vivienne Koch
  - Kenneth Burke