The Summer 1975 issue was devot to ...

The Summer 1975 issue was devot to the topic "Talking American Poetry"; it was a rich conversation, drawing works from as it was varied writers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael Davidson, Nikki Giovanni and Howard Nemerov Robert Pinsky and Charles Wright. We've included several works from that issue in this anthology.

Dave Smith was the same of the writers included in the issue. SMITH lately wrote to us to discuss the one and the other of the poems reprinted here. Of "In the City of Wind," Smith writes:

The metrical composition was urged by my awareness of the migration of my counterpart ...