Volume 17, Number 1 · July 22, 1971
The Last Ditch
By Stephen Spender
Crow
by Ted Hughes
Harper & Row, 84 pp., $3.95 (paper)
No Jerusalem But This
by Samuel Menashe
October House, 88 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
by A.R. Ammons
Norton, 105 pp., $6.00
Uplands: New Poems
by A.R. Ammons
Norton, 68 pp., $5.00
Collected Poems
by James Wright
Wesleyan, 232 pp., $7.95
In an illuminating interview about Crow, published in The London Magazine (January, 1971), Ted Hughes, commenting on the poetry of Vasko Popa, remarks: 'In a way it's obviously a pervasive and deep feeling that civilization has now disappeared completely. If it's still here it's still here by grace of pure inertia and chance and if the whole thing has essentially vanished one had better have one's spirit invested in something that will not vanish.'
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