BOOKS
THE MAGICIANS
LOVE AND FAME. By John Berryman. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
$6.50.
CITY WITHOUT WALLS. By W. H. Auden. Random House.
$4.50.
FIFTY POEMS FIFTY. By Reed Whittemore. University of MinnesoTa
Press.
$4.75.
UNTITLED SUBJECTS. By Richard Howard. Atheneum.
$3.95.
EARTH WALK AND SELECTED POEMS. By William Meredith. Knopf.
Cloth:
$4.50;
paper:
$1.95.
THE CARRIER OF LADDERS : Poems by W. S. Merwin. Atheneum.
$3.95.
THE MINER'S PALE CHILDREN: Pr05e by W. S. Merwin. Atheneum.
$6.50.
THE ALLIGATOR BRIDE: Poems New and Selected. By Donald Hall.
Harper and Row.
$5.95.
THE ZIG-ZAG WALK: Poems
1963·68.
By James Logan. E. P. Dutton.
$5.95.
CROW. By Ted Hughes. Harper and Row.
$5.95.
THE EYE- BEATERS, BLOOD, VICTORY, MADNESS, BUCKHEAD AND
MERCY. By James Dickey. Doubleday. Cloth:
$4.95;
paper:
$2.45.
REGARDING WAVE. By Gary Snyder. New Directions. Cloth:
$4.75:
paper:
$1.75.
RELEARNING THE ALPHABET. By Denise Levertov. New Directions.
$1.75.
ICONOGRAPHS. By May Swenson. Scribner's.
$4.95.
What these poets have in c'Ommon is that they are mostly
between around forty and around sixty and have established a reputa–
tion (that is t'O say, a set 'Of expectations ,in a fairish range 'Of read–
ers, which, if they are to carry 'On instead 'Of marking time, they must
partly satisfy but also partly cheat: an old conjurer cann'Ot survive
without new tricks). The exception is Richard Heward, a newer talent
