A review of books of verse recently published in the U.S.A. by Robert Creeley, J.V. Cunningham, Robert Francis, Galway Kinnell, Denise Leverton, John Logan, John Frederick Nims, Charles Olson, Anne Sexton and Gilbert Sorrentino with selected poems arranged and introduced by Donald Hall and read by Donald Hall, Marvin Kane, and Sylvia Plath

Mr. Hall rejects the view that 'possum walked backwards,' that T.S. Eliot betrayed the literary revolution in the 1920s by becoming a member of the English Establishment; but he believes that the widespread acceptance of this view helps to explain the division of contemporary American poets into academics and wild men, 'palefaces and redskins.'