May 1969
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
                                                                    This issue is sold out.
                                                            
                        - Christian Ayoub
 - Bill Berkson
 - George Bowering
 - Elizabeth Jennings
 - Maxine Kumin
 
                            Table of Contents
- 
                                            James Merrill
 - 
                                            Christian Ayoub
 - 
                                            Maxine Kumin
 - 
                                            George Bowering
 - 
                                            Kathleen Spivack
 - 
                                            Philip Levine
 - 
                                            Frank Polite
 - 
                                            Jack Marshall
 - 
                                            Jerome J. McGann
 - 
                                            Stanley Radhuber
 - 
                                            Peter Nelson
 - 
                                            Robin Magowan
 - 
                                            Bill Berkson
 - 
                                            Elizabeth Jennings
 - 
                                            David Mus
 
                            Comment
                        
                                        - 
                                            M. L. Rosenthal
- Poets & Critics & Poet-Critics
 - From Zero to the Absolute, by Reed Whittemore
 - The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study, by R. W. B. Lewis
 - Forms of Discovery, by Yvor Winters
 - Defending Ancient Springs, by Kathleen Raine
 - A New Canon of English Poetry (Ed. by James Reeves and Martin Seymour-Smith)
 - Two Centuries of Russian Verse (Ed. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and Babette Deutsch)
 - Modern Russian Poetry (Ed. by Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks)
 - The Odyssey of Homer (Tr. by Richmond Lattimore)
 - Collected Poems 1924-1955, by George Seferis (Tr. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
 - The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
 - Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957, by W. H. Auden
 - The Cities, by Paul Blackburn
 - Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, by Louis Zukofsky
 - The Play and Place of Criticism, by Murray Krieger
 - [J. V. Cunningham, Edwin Muir, David Gascoyne]
 
 
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                            Contributors
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- James Merrill
 - Christian Ayoub
 - Maxine Kumin
 - George Bowering
 - Mona Van Duyn
 - Kathleen Spivack
 
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- Philip Levine
 - Frank Polite
 - Jack Marshall
 - Jerome J. McGann
 - Stanley Radhuber
 - Peter Nelson
 
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- Robin Magowan
 - Bill Berkson
 - Elizabeth Jennings
 - David Mus
 - M. L. Rosenthal
 
 
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