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July 1971

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

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James Applewhite
James Atlas
Etta Blum
Stewart Conn
Tom Disch

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1971

Table of Contents

Charles Simic
- Suffering
- The Flies
- The Pillow
- The Grass
- The Body
John Richard Reed
- A Gallery of Spiders
James Applewhite
- Highwater
- The Scorned
Stewart Conn
- Marriage a Mountain Ridge
Erica Jong
Richard Schramm
- The Return
Gelacio Guillermo
- Pan de Sal
Etta Blum
- Only Because
- Beit Guvrin
James Atlas
- Isaac Rosenfeld Thinks about His Life
- The Diary of Gustav Janouch
Tom Disch
F. D. Reeve
- Last Game for the New Life
David Wagoner
- Lost
- Riverbed
- Old Man, Old Man
- Fog

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Contents

Jerome J. McGann
- New Poems: 1965-1969 and The Cave and the Spring: Essays on Poetry, by A. D. Hope
Robert B. Shaw
- Poems 1934-1969, by David Ignatow
- Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith

Contributors
- - Charles Simic
  - John Richard Reed
  - James Applewhite
  - Stewart Conn
  - Erica Jong
- - Richard Schramm
  - Gelacio Guillermo
  - Etta Blum
  - James Atlas
  - Tom Disch
- - F. D. Reeve
  - David Wagoner
  - Robert B. Shaw
  - Jerome J. McGann