Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, , published in April (also published in the United States, in May) Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography United States A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well John Ashbery: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Vermont Notebook Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox" Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers Erica Jong, Loveroot Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love W. S. Merwin, The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions) Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous) Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974 Charles Wright, Bloodlines Anthologies in the United States Duane Niatum (ed.), Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthology Kenneth Rosen (ed.), Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom), Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Hollander, Vision and Resonance, criticism Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey Other in English Dorothy Hewett, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Australia Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in Pakistan Jennifer Maiden, Australia: The Problem of Evil, Prism The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle