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September 1961

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

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Denis Donoghue
Anna Akhmatova
Akkamahadevi
Bassavanna
Charles Baudelaire

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POETRY Magazine cover of September 1961 issue

Table of Contents

Charles Baudelaire

Five Finnish Poems

Aaro Hellaakoski
- Hauen Laulu
Eeva-Liisa Manner
- Moon Games
Lauri Viita
- To a Critic
Helvi Juvonen
- The Chantarelle
Aila Meriluoto
- Wading Girl

César Vallejo
- The Big People
- Masses
Ausias March
- LXVIII / LXVIII
Pablo Neruda
Christian Morgenstern
Molière
- Tartuffe, I, II-V
Anna Akhmatova
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Die hebammen / The Midwives
Martial

Three Medieval Kannada Poems

Akkamahadevi
- The Lord as Lover
Bassavanna
- Of Omens
Allama Prabhu
- Losing a World

Antonio Machado
- Portrait
- Poem CXXXVI (xxi and xv) (Tr. by John Frederick Nims)
Lucio Piccolo

Comment

Reuben A. Brower
- A Poet's "Odyssey"
Sergio Pacifici

Contents

Denis Donoghue
- After Reading Hannah Arendt

Contributors
- - Charles Baudelaire
  - Aaro Hellaakoski
  - Eeva-Liisa Manner
  - Lauri Viita
  - Helvi Juvonen
  - Aila Meriluoto
  - César Vallejo
  - Ausias March
- - Pablo Neruda
  - Christian Morgenstern
  - Molière
  - Anna Akhmatova
  - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  - Martial
  - Akkamahadevi
  - Bassavanna
- - Allama Prabhu
  - Antonio Machado
  - Lucio Piccolo
  - Reuben A. Brower
  - Sergio Pacifici
  - Denis Donoghue