poetrysince1912:

From Harriet: Daryl Hine, former editor of Poetry, passed away in his Evanston, Illinois home on August 20. Hine served as Poetry’s editor from 1969-1978, after a brief term as visiting editor while his predecessor, Henry Rago (editor 1955-1969), took time off from the magazine. Hine had previously published work in the magazine during the 1950s and 1960s, and continued to do so throughout his editorship.

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It is the archaeological view
That holds that [life] is short and [art] is long;
Its partisans the erstwhile happy few
Who know to whom the particles belong.
Yet both the ancient tongues I thought I knew
Proved in the mouth irrelevant or wrong:
And in their place I have to offer you
These comprimés of analgesic song.

(From his twenty-five-part “Linear A,” Poetry, August 1972)