December 1971
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
                                                                    This issue is sold out.
                                                            
                        - Michael Burkard
 - Robert Burns
 - Paul Celan
 - William Heyen
 - Walter Kerr
 
                            Table of Contents
- 
                                            Greg Kuzma
 - 
                                            William E. Stafford
 
                            Eleven Poems by Paul Celan
                        
                                        
                - 
                                            Lynn Strongin
 - 
                                            Michael Burkard
 - 
                                            William Heyen
 - 
                                            Robert Grant Burns
 
                            Comment
                        
                                        - 
                                            William H. Pritchard
- Positives
 - Blue Mountain, by James Liddy
 - The Sad Mountain, by Tom Earley
 - From Bourgeois Land, by Iain Crichton Smith
 - The Loiners, by Tony Harrison
 - Maximum Security Ward, by Ramon Guthrie
 - Farming: A Hand Book, by Wendell Berry
 - New & Selected Poems, by William Jay Smith
 - Magic Papers, by Irving Feldman
 - Notebook, by Robert Lowell
 
 - 
                                            James Atlas
 - 
                                            Daryl Hine
 
                            Contents
                        
                                        - 
                                            David Wright
 
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                            Contributors
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- Greg Kuzma
 - William E. Stafford
 - David Wright
 - Paul Celan
 - Lynn Strongin
 
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- Michael Burkard
 - Jack Myers
 - William Heyen
 - Robert Grant Burns
 - Walter H. Kerr
 
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- William H. Pritchard
 - James Atlas
 - Daryl Hine
 
 
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