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April 1962

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

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Witter Bynner
Alan Dugan
Donald Hall
John Hollander
Amiri Baraka

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1962

Table of Contents

Alan Dugan
Charles Olson
- The Red Fish-of-Bones

Elementary Attitudes

Mona Van Duyn
- Earth

John Hollander
- Sent with a Bottle of Burgundy for a Birthday
Amiri Baraka
- As a Possible Lover
- Balboa, the Entertainer
Miller Williams
- On the Reburial of a Second Lieutenant
- The Girl
Philip Levine
- The Reply
- In a Vacant House
Lisel Mueller
- A Long Way from Hell
- The Siege
Celeste Turner Wright
- Armory
- Buffo
Maxine Kumin
- Song
- The Spell
David Lougee
- On Behalf of the Ivory Tower
- The Moment
Donald Hall
Witter Bynner

Comment

Theodore Holmes
- Wilbur's New Book: Two Views
Morris Bishop
- Lowell's Translations
Elliott Coleman
- George Dillon's Racine
Glauco Cambon
Ralph J. Mills Jr.
- Roethke's Garden

Contents

William Meredith
- Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, by Richard Wilbur
Hayden Carruth
- Imitations, by Robert Lowell

Contributors
- - Lisel Mueller
  - Celeste Turner Wright
  - Maxine Kumin
  - David Lougee
  - Donald Hall
  - Witter Bynner
  - Theodore Holmes
- - Morris Bishop
  - Elliott Coleman
  - Glauco Cambon
  - Ralph J. Mills Jr.
  - William Meredith
  - Hayden Carruth