Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Fall /Winter
I973
"Parnassus: Poetry in Review
is a new and importantmagazine."–
NewYork Times Book Review
"Academic libraries and large public libraries will find
Pamasstls
a
valuable addition to their poetry
collections."-American Libraries
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
has been praised for its "wide spread of
opinions, leisurely pace, and admirable format." Our third issue
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continues this excellence with such live!y commentary as Donald
t
Davie on three new books by Robert Lowell, Helen Vend[er on
Adrienne Rich, Robert Kelly on contemporary poetics, Muriel
Rukeyser onAnne Sexton's
Book of Folly,
John Bayley onW. S.
Merwin, R. W. Flint on JohnWheelwright
&
Trumbull Stickney,
George Starbuck on Robert Bly, Kenneth Fields on American Indian
Poetry.
And revie\vs by TheodoreWeiss, Michael Harper, Robert Bly,
DavidKalstOne, Donald Sutherland, Calvin Beciienr, Herbert
Leibowitz, and M.
L.
Rosenthal. Essays on Greek, Spanish, Swedish,
and Aztec Poetry.
A.l1d introducing anew 1'egular jeature-two
surveys of small press books.
Subsequent issues will feature Guy Davenport::in the poetry of
Louis Zukofsky, Sherman Paul on Charles Olson, Michael Wood
on Twentieth Century British Poetry, Ross Feld on Paul B[ackburn.
And much more.
Parnassus is
unlike any literary r lagazine in
America.
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~n
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