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[edit] Events
- This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
- The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- March — Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protested Padilla's treatment and accused Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who said he continued to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina said he stood by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales.
- April 8 — release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York city streets
[edit] Works published
[edit] English language
- Margaret Atwood, Power Politics
- Bill Bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth
- George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970
- Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry
- Bill Howell, The Red Fox
- Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton
- Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos
- Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter
- Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press)
- Raymond Souster, The Years
- Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954-65
- Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes
- Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden
- George Barker, Poems of Places and People
- Frances Bellerby, a book of selected poems
- George Mackay Brown
- Fishermen and Ploughs
- Poems New and Selected
- Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley
- John Cotton, Old Movies
- Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star
- Veronica Forrest-Thompson, Language-Games
- Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree
- Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it
- Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns
- Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961
- Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology
- Vernon Scannell, a book of selected poems
- Jon Silkin, Amana Grass
- Donald Ward, The Dead Snake
- Patricia Whittaker, The Flying Men
- Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems
- Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Glass of Water 'Fore I Die
- Gwendolyn Brooks:
- Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
- The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Aloneness
- Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day
- Ted Berrigan, Train Ride
- Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries
- John Ciardi, Lives of X
- Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions)
- Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931-1970 (New Directions)
- Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
- Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares
- Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree
- James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil
- Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice
- Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
- Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert
- Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence
- Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems
- Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse)
- James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems
[edit] French language
- Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone)
- Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone)
- Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves
- Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris)
- Gilbert Langevin:
- Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso
- Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme
- L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même
- René Char, L'Honneur devant Dieu
- P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique
- M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur
- Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication
[edit] Anthologies
- J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste
- Pierre Seghers, editor, La Poésie symboliste
- Leah Goldberg, Shearit ha-Chaim (posthumous)
- I. Efros, Shirim, collected poems
- D. Avidan, Shirim Hitzoniim
- Y. Amichai, Al Menat Lo Lizkor
- N. Yonatan, Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam
- D. Pagis, Gilgul
- R. Adi, Mishaa le-Shaa
- A. Eldon, Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved
- R. Shani, Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech
- M. Meir, ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim
- M. Oren, Adam Muad
- M. Megged, editor, Shirim Liriim, anthology of modern Hebrew poetry
- E. Silberschlag, Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim
- R. Avinoam, be-Misholai
- R. Lee, El Parvarai ha-Shemesh
- Libero De Libero, Di brace in brace[1]
- Hans Borli, Isfuglen
- Alfred Hauge, Det evige sekund
- Peter R. Holm, Synslinjer
- Ernst Orvil, Dikt i utvalg
- Sigmund Skard, Popel ved flypass
[edit] Portuguese language
- Joaquim Cardozo, De uma noite de festa
- Murilo Mendes, Convergência
- Henriqueta Lisboa, Nova lírica
- Manuel Bandeira, Meus pemas perferidos, a selection from previous books
- Foed Castro Chamma, O andarilho e a aurora
- Anderson Braga Horta, Altiplano
[edit] Spanish language
- Herberto Padilla, Por el momento, published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above)
- Roberto Fernández Retamar, A quien pueda interesar (Cuba)
- José Lezama Lima, Poesía completa (Cuba)
- Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, Estelas/homenajes (Nicaragua)
- Carlos Solórzano, Las celdas (Guatemala)
- Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, Poesía joven de Panamá
- M.L. Mendoza, Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres
- José Angel Valente, Las palabras de la tribu, essays
- Vicente Aleixandre, Poesía superrealista
- José María Valverde, Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945-70
- Ylva Eggehorn, Ska vi dela
- Bo Setterlind, Himlen har landat
- Karl Vennberg, Sju ord pa tunnelbanan
- Lars Forssell, Oktober dikter ("October Poems")
- Gören Palm, Varför har nätterna inga namn?
- Kerstin Thorvall, Följetong i skärt och svart
- Brakha Coodley, Not on Bread Alone
- Leo Kussman, Ballads of a Generation
- Berl Siegal, Poems for Children
- Mier Shtiker, Jewish Landscape, Volume 2
- M.M. Saffir, Creator of Various Dreams
- Menakhem Stern, Songs at Midnight
- Rochelle Weprinski, The Only Star
- Aaron Zeitlin, Poems of Destruction and Faith
- Joseph Kerler, Song Between Teeth
- Jacob Sternberg, The Circle of Years
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Elsewhere
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- May 9 — Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
- March 7 — Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
- March 9 — Jean Follain, French poet
- June 25 — Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright
- September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
- September 9 — Lenore G. Marshall, 72
- September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) — Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
- November (exact date not known) — Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
- December 18 — Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence
- Dates not known:
- ^ Britannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume
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