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October 1972

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

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Anne Winters
Michael Ryan
Karl Shapiro
Ashley Brown
W. Auden

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POETRY Magazine cover of October 1972 sixtieth anniversary issue

Table of Contents

W. H. Auden
- Poem
John Berryman
- Fare Well
Elizabeth Bishop
- A Miracle for Breakfast
Hart Crane
- At Melville's Tomb
Charles Wright
- The Grave of the Right Hand
E. E. Cummings
- Seven Poems
James L. Dickey
- Of Holy War
Alan Dugan
- Aside
Robert Graves
- The Cupboard
Anthony Hecht
- Alceste in the Wilderness
Ted Hughes
- Bawdry Embraced
Randall Jarrell
- The Ways and the Peoples
James Joyce
- Night Piece
Kenneth Koch
- Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
D. H. Lawrence
- Birthday
James Merrill
- The Green Eye
- From Theory of Vision
Harriet Monroe
- Nogi
Marianne Moore
- The Wizard in Words
Howard Nemerov
- Sigmund Freud
John Frederick Nims
- Parting: 1940
Sylvia Plath
- Metamorphosis
Gertrude Stein
- Stanzas in Meditation
Wallace Stevens
- Phases
Dylan Thomas
- We Lying by Seasand
Allen Tate
- From Sonnets of the Blood: VII
Tom Vosik
- To Someone Nameless
William Carlos Williams
- Proof of Immortality

Comment of Six Decades

Northrop Frye
- The Betjeman Brand
Richard Howard

Contents

Allen Tate
- from Sonnets of the Blood
Karl Shapiro
- Creative Glut
Anne Winters
- The Poetry of Robert Marteau
Ashley Brown
- Allen Tate: A Poet on Poetry, 1924-1944
Michael Ryan
- A Talk on Wallace Stevens

Contributors
- - Wallace Stevens
  - Dylan Thomas
  - Allen Tate
  - Tom Vosik
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Northrop Frye
  - Richard Howard
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Anne Winters
  - Ashley Brown
  - Michael Ryan