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August 1972

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

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Turner Cassity
C. Cavafy
John Foster
David Galler
Marilyn Hacker

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1972

Table of Contents

Three Poems by C. P. Cavafy

C. P. Cavafy

Three Poems by Yannis Ritsos

Yannis Ritsos
Anghelos Sikelianos
- Security

Two Poems by Angelos Sikelianus

Anghelos Sikelianos
- Free Dodecanese

Kostes Palamas
- Who Knows in Other Stars

Three Poems by C. P. Cavafy

C. P. Cavafy

Robert Morse
- Noche Triste
David Galler
- Questions
H. B. Mallalieu
Marilyn Hacker
- Chanson de l'Enfant Prodigue
A. D. Hope
- Parabola
Turner Cassity
- City of the Angels
Daryl Hine
- Linear A

Comment

Contents

John L. Foster
- The Narrow Road Through the Deep West
Philip Murray
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda (Tr. by W. S. Merwin)

Contributors
- - C. P. Cavafy
  - Yannis Ritsos
  - Anghelos Sikelianos
  - Kostes Palamas
  - Robert Morse
- - David Galler
  - H. B. Mallalieu
  - Marilyn Hacker
  - A. D. Hope
  - Turner Cassity
- - Daryl Hine
  - Richard Howard
  - Philip Murray
  - John L. Foster