April 1961 Kenneth BurkeC. CavafyCid CormanJohn HollanderRichmond LattimoreTable of ContentsFrom this IssuePoempoetry-magazineWaiting for the Pope Read More Poempoetry-magazineFailure Read More Poempoetry-magazineVetus Flamma Read More Table of ContentsKarl ShapiroWaiting for the PopeA Modest FuneralSurroundedAmericans Are Afraid of LizardsEmily Dickinson and Katherine Anne PorterA Garden in ChicagoRichmond LattimoreFailureRemorseEasterThe First Seven YearsWild Mourning DovesThe Painter's EyeRobert MezeyVetus FlammaDark HeadTo Philip Levine, on the Day of AtonementTo the GoddessCid CormanThe ConversationThe WaysThe DeskJohn HollanderThe Altarpiece FinishedThe FindFor the Passing of Groucho's PursuerRiddle/AnswerJohn L. SweeneySunionPremonitory MemorialProjection for John DeeLoch InchiquinPeter Dale ScottLes Bouffons d'aprs-GuerreParoleC. P. CavafyAemilianus Monae Alexandrian, A.D. 628- 655 (Tr. by Rae Dalven)Myres: Alexandria, A.D. 340Perilous ThingsIn a Famous Greek Colony, 200 B.C.In the Month of AthyrTomb of IasesDionysus and His CrewOne of Their Gods[Anna Dalassené][Supplication]CommentRobert LowellYvor Winters: A TributeCharles TomlinsonAnd the Eyelids Are a Little WearyHerbert ReadOn Translating PoetryVivienne KochThree LivesThe West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay, by Eleanor RugglesThe Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World, by John Malcolm BrinninThe Masterpiece and the Man: Yeats as I Knew Him, by Monk GibbonContentsKenneth BurkeThe Principle of CompositionCONTRIBUTORSKenneth BurkeC. P. CavafyCid CormanJohn HollanderVivienne KochRichmond LattimoreRobert LowellRobert MezeyHerbert ReadPeter Dale ScottKarl ShapiroJohn L. SweeneyCharles Tomlinson