Volume 11, Number 2 · August 1, 1968
An Alphabet of Poets
By John Thompson
A Look Round the Estate
by Kingsley Amis
Harcourt, Brace & World, 49 pp., $3.95
Short Poems
by John Berryman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 120 pp., $4.50
Words
by Robert Creeley
Scribners, 143 pp., $4.95
The Hard Hours
by Anthony Hecht
Atheneum, 103 pp., $2.45
Woodwo
by Ted Hughes
Harper & Row, 184 pp., $4.95
Body Rags
by Galway Kinnell
Houghton Mifflin, 61 pp., $4.00
The Harvester's Vase
by Ned O'Gorman
Harcourt, Brace & World, 49 pp., $4.50
The Marches
by James Scully
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 57 pp., $4.00
Iliad of Broken Sentences
by Rosemary Tonks
The Bodley Head, 30 pp., 15s.
How happy our poets should be these days! Relieved of all their former responsibilities, they can go about their business of making poems with words, as pure as any scientist alone at his Institute blackboard, solving theoretical problems that have absolutely no practical application at all. (A quotation, actual but not for attribution: 'Anybody who discovers a cure for cancer in this place ought to be fired.')
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