Journal Issue
In the Telephone Book by Eda Lu Walton marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Running down the long, black list”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing machines and accelerated travel into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, On Christmas Eve and A Redwood Forest in Winter keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. 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 this Los Angeles setting, modernism appears less as a manifesto than as a widening of permissible rhythm, image, and subject within a magazine still hospitable to rhyme.
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- On Christmas Eve — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 5]
- A Redwood Forest in Winter — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 6]
- Rosa Mystica — Clark Ashton Smith [Poem, p. 7]
- Long White Roads — Joseph Andrew Galahad [Poem, p. 8]
- No Roses — Joseph Andrew Galahad [Poem, p. 8]
- The Portrait — Emeline Margaret Brady [Poem, p. 9]
- The Phantom — Lucile Taylor [Poem, p. 9]
- Half Thought — Zona Gale [Poem, p. 10]
- Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills — Zona Gale [Poem]
- Sidney Lanier — Ernest Dexter [Poem, p. 11]
- The Walls of St. Francis — Bertha McE. Knipe [Poem, p. 12]
- The Agitator — Eunice T. Gray [Poem, p. 14]
- Creed — Constance Lindsay Skinner [Poem, p. 15]
- Rich Man, Poor Man — John R. Moreland [Poem, p. 15]
- Sand Dunes — John R. Moreland [Poem, p. 16]
- Sea Sadness — John R. Moreland [Poem, p. 17]
- Dryad — Harold Vinal [Poem, p. 17]
- Truth Absolute — Eda Lu Walton [Poem, p. 18]
- In Silence — Eda Lu Walton [Poem, p. 18]
- The Vision — Wright Field [Poem, p. 20]
- Dreams — Wright Field [Poem, p. 21]
- The Letter — J. M. Batchelor [Poem, p. 21]
- Pursuit — Ted Olson [Poem, p. 22]
- Moods of Women — Genevieve Taggard [Poem, p. 23]
- She Comes After Years to the Ocean — Genevieve Taggard [Poem, p. 23]
- Ultimate — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 24]
- Night and the Sea — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 25]
- Poetry Magic — Ruth Harwood [Poem, p. 25]
- Supremacy — Ruth Harwood [Poem, p. 26]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 8, December 1921. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.