February 1970
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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                        - A. Ammons
 - Stephen Dobyns
 - William Hunt
 - Jean Malley
 - William Meredith
 
                            Table of Contents
- 
                                            Florence Trefethen
 - 
                                            Stephen Dobyns
 
                            Life of a Queen
                        
                                        - 
                                            Lisel Mueller
 
- 
                                            Hy Sobiloff
 - 
                                            William Meredith
 
                            Comment
                        
                                        - 
                                            Richard Eberhart
 - 
                                            Laurence Lieberman
- Poet-Critics and Scholar-Critics
 - Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry, by Herbert Leibowitz
 - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, by Ruth Miller
 - The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, by Frank Lentricchia
 - Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
 - Essays and Reviews, by Thomas H. Carter
 - Introduction to Poetry: Commentaries on Thirty Poems, by Mark Van Doren
 - To Abolish Children and Other Essays, by Karl Shapiro
 - Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now, by James Dickey
 
 - 
                                            Peter Dale Scott
- The Dainty Monsters, by Michael Ondaatje
 - Lebanon Voices, by Bill Bissett
 - Fireweed, by Ken Belford
 - Pointing, by Lionel Kearns
 - What They Say and Black Night Window, by John Newlove
 - Winter of the Luna Moth, by Joe Rosenblatt
 - Total War, by Harry Howith
 - Kingdom of Absence and Civil Elegies, by Dennis Lee
 - If There Are Any Noahs, by Jim Brown
 - 21 X 3, by Dorothy Farmiloe, Len Gasparini, and Eugene McNamara
 - Collected Poems, by Red Lane
 - As Is, by Raymond Souster
 - The Shattered Plinths, by Irving Layton
 - Memory No Servant, by Earle Birney
 - A Canadian Chronicle
 
 
                            Contents
                        
                                        - 
                                            John Unterecker
 
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                            Contributors
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- A. R. Ammons
 - William Hunt
 - Florence Trefethen
 - Stephen Dobyns
 
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- Lisel Mueller
 - Hy Sobiloff
 - Jean Malley
 - William Meredith
 
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- Richard Eberhart
 - Laurence Lieberman
 - Peter Dale Scott
 - John Unterecker
 
 
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