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Can Poetry Be Reviewed?

Moly and My Sad Captains

by Thom Gunn

Writings to An Unfinished Accompaniment

by W.S. Merwin

Braving the Elements

by James Merrill

Wintering Out

by Seamus Heaney

The Crystal Lithium

by James Schuyler

They Feed They Lion

by Philip Levine

A Change of Hearts

by Kenneth Koch

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Risking Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard

by Josiah Thompson


Mexico and Its Demons

The Other Mexico: Critique of the Pyramid

by Octavio Paz, translated by Lysander Kemp, with a postscript translated by Helen R. Lane


Kissing Hitler

Norman Mailer

by Richard Poirier

Marilyn

by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers


The Mysterious Moon Marks

The Roots of Civilization

by Alexander Marshack


Sliding Into English

Rembrandt's Hat

by Bernard Malamud

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

by Vladimir Nabokov


Survivors

Photographs of My Father

by Paul Spike

The Amnesty of John David Herndon

by James Reston Jr.


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