Journal Issue
Spell of Granite by John Drury marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Flaunting the iron of your strength”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Passers-By and A Discovery keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. The presence of a named form such as A Sonnet to Shelley makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. 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.
Contributors
- Hazel Hall
- Mary Brennan Clapp
- John Drury
- Norma Miller
- Nellie Burget Miller
- Elizabeth K. McGowen
- Marie Luhrs
- Ina Coolbrith
More contributors (19)
- Mary Brent Whiteside
- Sidney King Russell
- Miriam Allen de Ford
- Edward H. Pfeiffer
- Jay G. Sigmund
- Floyd Meredith
- Charles Goodman
- Frances L. Cooper
- Ruth E. McKee
- Edna G. Henry
- Dixie McCarty
- Joseph Auslander
- Gordon Malherbe Hillman
- Lucia Clark Markham
- John Richard Moreland
- Albert Edmund Trombly
- Julia P. Dabney
- Dombey Shepherd
- Isaac Jenkinson Frazee
Publication details
Full contents
- Passers-By — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 3]
- A Discovery — Mary Brennan Clapp [Poem, p. 5]
- Spell of Granite — John Drury [Poem, p. 6]
- Street Lights — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 7]
- Joy Walks in the Morning — Nellie Burget Miller [Poem, p. 8]
- Words — Nellie Burget Miller [Poem, p. 9]
- The Barrier — Elizabeth K. McGowen [Poem, p. 10]
- Thoughts in a Windy Street — Marie Luhrs [Poem, p. 11]
- Stanza — Ina Coolbrith [Poem, p. 11]
- Houses — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 12]
- The Poet in the City — Sidney King Russell [Poem, p. 13]
- A City Night — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem, p. 16]
- A Sonnet to Shelley — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem, p. 16]
- Broadway — Edward H. Pfeiffer [Poem, p. 17]
- Cards — Jay G. Sigmund [Poem, p. 18]
- Stone Flowers — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 18]
- The Dancer — Charles Goodman [Poem, p. 20]
- Motor Cars at Night — Frances L. Cooper [Poem, p. 20]
- Mind — Ruth E. McKee [Poem, p. 20]
- The Dispensary Doctor — Edna G. Henry [Poem, p. 21]
- At a Flower Stand — Dixie McCarty [Poem, p. 21]
- Passing—Passing — Joseph Auslander [Poem, p. 22]
- Nightfall — Gordon Malherbe Hillman [Poem, p. 22]
- November Night — Lucia Clark Markham [Poem, p. 22]
- Autumn — John Richard Moreland [Poem, p. 23]
- November in Texas — Albert Edmund Trombly [Poem, p. 24]
- The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth — Julia P. Dabney [Poem, p. 25]
- Lead On! — Dombey Shepherd [Poem, p. 26]
- A Desert Suite — Isaac Jenkinson Frazee [Poem, p. 28]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 2, no. 7, November 1922. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.