1961 in Poetry - Works Published in English - United States

United States

  • Lee Anderson, Nags Head
  • Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse Of
  • Paul Blackburn, The Nets
  • Harold Bloom, John Hollander, editors, The Wind and the Rain
  • Philip Booth, The Islanders
  • Joseph Payne Brennan, The Wind of Time
  • John Ciardi, In the Stoneworks
  • Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
  • Donald Davidson, The Long Street
  • August Derleth, editor, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
  • Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Helen in Egypt, a long retelling of the tale in lyrical prose and verse of the Helen of Troy tale
  • Ed Dorn, The Newly Fallen, Totem Press
  • Alan Dugan, Poems
  • Abbie Houston Evans, Fact of Crystal
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Starting from San Francisco
  • Arthur Freeman, Apollonian Poems
  • George Garrett, Abraham's Knife
  • Allen Ginsberg:
    • Empty Mirror: Early Poems, New York: Totem/Corinth
    • Kaddish and Other Poems, San Francisco: City Lights Books
  • Horace Gregory, Medusa in Gramercy Park
  • Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press Briton
  • Daryl Hine, Heroics
  • John Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky (also see Harold Bloom/John Hollander item above)
  • John Holmes, The Fortune Teller
  • David Ignatow, Say Pardon
  • LeRoi Jones, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
  • Carolyn Kizer, The Ungrateful Garden, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • Maxine Kumin, Halfway
  • Denise Levertov, The Jacob's Ladder, New York: New Directions
  • Philip Levine, On the Edge
  • Robert Lowell, Imitations
  • W. S. Merwin:
    • Translator, Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)
    • Editor, West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society
  • Pablo Neruda, Odas elementales, translated by C. Lozano and with an introduction by Fernando Alegría
  • Lorine Niedecker, My Friend Tree (published with help from Ian Hamilton Finlay)
  • John Nist, editor, Modern Brazilian Poetry
  • Charles Olson:
    • The Maximus Poems
    • The Distances
  • Hyam Plutzik, Horatio, a narrative monologue basically in blank verse
  • Theodore Roethke, I Am! Says the Lamb
  • May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine
  • Peter Viereck, The Tree Witch
  • John Hall Wheelock, The Gardener
  • Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet
  • James Wright and Robert Bly, translators, Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (Austrian poet writing in German), The Sixties Press

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