Journal Issue
In Montana Wives, Gwendolen Haste brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus. The poem moves through deliberately uneven lines around “I had to laugh”; syntax and speaking rhythm take over work once assigned to a regular foot, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Color and The Girl of the Loneliness 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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- Color — Esther Yarnell [Poem, p. 3]
- The Girl of the Loneliness — Elliott C. Lincoln [Poem, p. 8]
- Coastwise Hills — Dorothy Pinckney Pillsbury [Poem, p. 9]
- Montana Wives — Gwendolen Haste [Poem, p. 10]
- There’s a Wide Sky — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 12]
- Valley of Slew Grass — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 13]
- To a Dead Pembina Warrior — Lew Sarett [Poem, p. 14]
- Chess — Babette Deutsch [Poem, p. 15]
- Sketches from the Tyrol — Edwine Behre [Poem, p. 15]
- Blowing Grasses — Sarah Bixby Smith [Poem, p. 16]
- Telegraph Hill — Dorothy Patterson [Poem, p. 16]
- Mountain Pasture — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 18]
- The Junk — Wheeler F. Newman [Poem, p. 19]
- The Passing of the Long Wharf at — Ben Field [Poem, p. 20]
- The Log House — Albert Edmund Trombly [Poem, p. 20]
- The Answering Heights — Bernice Lesbia Kenyon [Poem, p. 21]
- On a Holiday — Bernard Raymund [Poem, p. 22]
- Trees Walking — Edna G. Henry [Poem, p. 22]
- Eucalyptii Amygdalina — Dorothy S. Lyndall [Poem, p. 23]
- Point Loma — Rolla Prideaux [Poem, p. 24]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 11, March 1922. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.