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February 1972

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

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Terry Bagg
Tom Disch
Jean Garrigue
Sandra Gilbert
Louis Gilmore

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Poetry Magazine February 1972 issue cover

Table of Contents

Jon Silkin
- Air That Pricks Earth with Life and Turns
Alan Williamson
- Temporary Earth
- The First Spring Nights
Terry R. Bagg
D. M. Thomas
- The Sea-King to Kerenza
- Kerenza on Sand-Dunes
Henry Weinfield
- The Fisherman and His Soul
Louis Gilmore
Michael Schmidt
- Scorpion
- Trap
May Sarton
- Prisoner at a Desk
Sandra M. Gilbert
- The Suits
Tom Disch
John Peck
- Apple
William Matthews
- The Visionary Picnic
Seamus Heaney
- Gifts of Rain
- May
Jean Garrigue
- Why the Heart Has Dreams Is Why the Mind Goes Mad
Michael Hamburger

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Contributors
- - Jon Silkin
  - Alan Williamson
  - Terry R. Bagg
  - D. M. Thomas
  - Henry Weinfield
  - Louis Gilmore
- - Seamus Heaney
  - Jean Garrigue
  - Michael Hamburger
  - Carolyn Kizer
  - Bernetta Quinn