Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Pauline Barrington’s Los Angeles. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “About a mission it began to grow”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Edna Goit Brintnall’s Chinatown answers it from another angle: it organizes description through sentence-length lines around “A low narrow doorway—indistinct stair”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
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- She Dreams of Autumn — Edward H. Pfeiffer [Poem, p. 1]
- The Gift of Beauty — John R. McCarthy [Poem, p. 3]
- Greasewood — Gertrude Crank [Poem, p. 3]
- Music — Beulah May [Poem, p. 4]
- Snatches of Song — Rosamond Eddy [Poem, p. 4]
- The Lifted Cup — Jessie Rittenhouse [Poem, p. 6]
- Song of a Mountain Flower — Louise Stedman Bostick [Poem, p. 7]
- Deferred — Dorothea Myrto Childs [Poem, p. 7]
- The Northwestern Wheat Field — Mary Graham Lund [Poem, p. 8]
- Mountain Water Song — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 10]
- Los Angeles — Pauline Barrington [Poem, p. 10]
- Sky Scape — Eleanor Hammond [Poem, p. 13]
- The Visitor — Louise Stedman Bostick [Poem, p. 13]
- Purity — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 14]
- Gladness — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 14]
- Loneliness — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 14]
- Twilight — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 15]
- My Thoughts — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 15]
- Leaves — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 16]
- Ars Immortalis — William Foster Elliot [Poem, p. 16]
- Life — Winifred M. Heath [Poem, p. 18]
- Emptiness — David Grokowsky [Poem, p. 18]
- Phantoms — Eleanor Hammond [Poem, p. 19]
- Chinatown — Edna Goit Brintnall [Poem, p. 19]
- The Old Pueblo — Lillian White Spencer [Poem, p. 20]
- Consolation — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 20]
- Mount Hamilton — Anna Roxzilla Crever [Poem, p. 21]
- Truancy — Charles Wharton Stork [Poem, p. 21]
- Half-Light Happiness — Charles Wharton Stork [Poem, p. 22]
- To Heifetz — Charles Wharton Stork [Poem, p. 24]
- Gathering Figs — Virginia Burton Bradley [Poem, p. 24]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 7, November 1921. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.