The
Hudson
Review

A Magazine of Literature and the Arts

“The Hudson Review is rare in having remained a forum for intelligent, well-written criticism and cultural commentary on a broad spectrum of topics. In fact it belongs to a tiny handful of magazines where the first criterion of inclusion is literary merit.”

— The Wall Street Journal

Poetry

The Dog Without Feather, trans. by Thomas Colchie; A Knife All Blade; Weaving the Morning; The Emptiness of Man, trans. by Galway Kinnell; Cemetery in Pernambuco, Our Lady of Light, trans. by Jane Cooper

by
João Cabral de Melo Neto

To read this article, purchase the Spring 1971 issue.