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October 1970

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

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Keith Althaus
A. Ammons
Richard Eberhart
Laurence Gonzales
John Hollander

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1970

Table of Contents

Richard Howard
- Giovanni da Fiesole on the Sublime, or Fra Angelico's "Last Judgment"
George Johnston
A. R. Ammons
- Countering
- Play
- Then One
- Working Still
- Dominion
- Reversal
- Project
- Cougar
- Admission
- Square
- Here & Now
- Mountain Talk
- September Drift
Josephine Jacobsen
Keith Althaus
- Toy Soldiers
- Poem
David Lehman
Shirley Kaufman
Igor Webb
- Teaching Poetry of the First World War
Laurence Gonzales
- Forgery
H. B. Mallalieu
- Lines to an Ambassador
E. McKim
- [Poem]
Richard Eberhart
- Time Passes
- United 555
John Hollander
- The Curse

Comment

John Hollander
- Let a Thousand Blooms
Jerome J. McGann
- Blake and a Tradition
Richard Howard
- Sortes Vergilianae
John Koethe

Contributors
- - Richard Howard
  - George Johnston
  - A. R. Ammons
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Keith Althaus
- - David Lehman
  - Shirley Kaufman
  - Igor Webb
  - Laurence Gonzales
  - H. B. Mallalieu
- - E. McKim
  - Richard Eberhart
  - John Hollander
  - Jerome J. McGann
  - John Koethe