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December 1966

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

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Hugh Kenner
Joseph Bennett
Paul Blackburn
Barbara Gibbs
Mick Gidley

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1966

Table of Contents

Three Worlds

Gary Snyder
- Things to Do around Seattle

Paul Blackburn
David Ignatow
- Rescue the Dead
- The Hope
Barbara Gibbs
- Distance
- Sand-Pit

From Passion-Love: A Cycle of Poems

Mick Gidley
- Images of Recrystallization

Kathleen Spivack
- Mythmaking
Phyllis Harris
- Phonograph
Joseph D. Bennett
- The Tomb at Rimini
- Marine
Kenneth Rexroth

Five Shaped Poems

John Hollander

Comment

X J Kennedy
- Choice and Range
Howard Wamsley
- Speeding Hackney Cabriolet
William Van O'Connor
- The Poems of Howard Baker
Arthur Freeman
James L. Weil
Felix N. Stefanile
Frank Lentricchia Jr.

Contents

Hugh Kenner
- The Poet in His Poem
Arthur Freeman
- Poems, 1922-1961, by Donald Davidson
- The Horse Opera and Other Poems, by Mac Hammond
James L. Weil
- The Gorky Poems, by Jerome Rothenberg

Contributors
- - Gary Snyder
  - Paul Blackburn
  - David Ignatow
  - Barbara Gibbs
  - Mick Gidley
  - Kathleen Spivack
- - Phyllis Harris
  - Joseph D. Bennett
  - Kenneth Rexroth
  - John Hollander
  - X J Kennedy
  - Howard Wamsley
- - William Van O'Connor
  - Arthur Freeman
  - James L. Weil
  - Felix N. Stefanile
  - Frank Lentricchia Jr.
  - Hugh Kenner