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May 1973

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

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Jonathan Aaron
Anna Akhmatova
Jon Anderson
Thomas Cole
Horace Gregory

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1973

Table of Contents

Horace Gregory
Jonathan Aaron
- The Blindfold
- Essential Company
Paul Smyth
- Ave, Vale
Thomas Cole
- Spider
Anne Winters
- Alternate Lives
Stephen Sandy
- Winter Mountain
- Declension
Mark Perlberg
- The Dead Fox
David Ignatow
- In a Dream
John Frederick Nims
Susan Zwinger
- Quarrel with Intimacy
David Pollens
- View, from Valry
- It's My Last Guess in City
Mark Jarman
- This Way
James McMichael
Judith Kroll
- A Walk in India
- Akbar's Tomb
Paul Ramsey
- Suppose a Country Gave a Holiday and Then Suppose That the Tears Were True
- A Meditation on Number and on Definition
Jon Anderson
- The Inner Gate

Four Poems by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

Comment

William Meredith
- Swan Songs
William Hunt
- Deadly Moments
Ralph J. Mills Jr.
- Six Poets

Contributors
- - Horace Gregory
  - Jonathan Aaron
  - Paul Smyth
  - Thomas Cole
  - Anne Winters
  - Stephen Sandy
  - Mark Perlberg
- - David Ignatow
  - John Frederick Nims
  - Susan Zwinger
  - David Pollens
  - Mark Jarman
  - James McMichael
  - Judith Kroll
- - Paul Ramsey
  - Jon Anderson
  - Anna Akhmatova
  - William Meredith
  - William Hunt
  - Ralph J. Mills Jr.