Journal Issue
Modernism enters this number through Adjustment by Laura Riding Gottschalk. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “You thought our arms were too pertly”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. George Maxwell’s A Typewriter answers it from another angle: it organizes description through sentence-length lines; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace. The presence of a named form such as Hokku makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. The issue catches Los Angeles poetry culture in transition: polished song remains public currency, but modernist compression and contemporary speech have begun to alter what a lyric can hold.
Contributors
- Aurania Rouveyroll
- Clinton Scollard
- Laura Riding Gottschalk
- Glenn Ward Dresbach
- Julia Boynton Green
- Agnes K. Gibbs
- Miriam Allen de Ford
- Caroline Ainslie
More contributors (24)
- Beatrice West Borst
- George Maxwell
- Floyd Meredith
- Walter Evans Kidd
- Nellie Burget Miller
- Charlotte W. Thurston
- Charmion von Wiegand
- Joseph Franklin Poland
- Mary M. Meisinger
- Elizabeth K. McGowen
- Samuel M. Sargent, Jr
- Meredith Norton
- Harold W. Gammans
- Kalfus Kurtz Gusling
- Ruth Clay Price
- Claribel W. Avery
- Ames Peterson
- Neal Gallatin
- John R. McCarthy
- Anne Bremer
- Laura Bell Everett
- Flossie Faith Shead
- Portia Martin
- Marie Emilie Gilchrist
Publication details
Full contents
- My Heart’s a Rift of Song — Aurania Rouveyroll [Poem, p. 3]
- The Cypresses of Monterey — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 4]
- Adjustment — Laura Riding Gottschalk [Poem, p. 5]
- The Better Ship—Panama — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 6]
- Songcraft — Julia Boynton Green [Poem, p. 8]
- The Hawk — Agnes K. Gibbs [Poem, p. 8]
- A Peasant Girl — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem, p. 9]
- In the Woods — Caroline Ainslie [Poem, p. 10]
- Shu-Shula — Caroline Ainslie [Poem, p. 10]
- My Neighbor’s Journey — Beatrice West Borst [Poem, p. 10]
- A Typewriter — George Maxwell [Poem, p. 11]
- Windows — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 11]
- White Beauty — Walter Evans Kidd [Poem, p. 12]
- Prophecy — Nellie Burget Miller [Poem, p. 12]
- The Vanished Presence — Charlotte W. Thurston [Poem, p. 13]
- Flights — Charmion von Wiegand [Poem, p. 13]
- Post Office Sketches — Joseph Franklin Poland [Poem, p. 14]
- II. THe Foreign Mart Winpow — Joseph Franklin Poland [Poem, p. 14]
- Impotence — Mary M. Meisinger [Poem, p. 15]
- Wood Fires — Elizabeth K. McGowen [Poem, p. 15]
- Intersection — Samuel M. Sargent, Jr [Poem, p. 16]
- The Little Things — Meredith Norton [Poem, p. 17]
- Cacti and Leaves — Harold W. Gammans [Poem, p. 18]
- You — Kalfus Kurtz Gusling [Poem, p. 18]
- Hokku — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 19]
- Education — Claribel W. Avery [Poem, p. 19]
- Vancouver Barracks — Ames Peterson [Poem, p. 20]
- The North Sky — Neal Gallatin [Poem, p. 20]
- This Life the Last? — John R. McCarthy [Poem, p. 21]
- Still Life — Anne Bremer [Poem, p. 22]
- The Man of One Poem — Laura Bell Everett [Poem, p. 22]
- Sunset — Flossie Faith Shead [Poem, p. 23]
- Plover-Wing Sings in the Fog — Portia Martin [Poem, p. 23]
- Beatitude — Marie Emilie Gilchrist [Poem, p. 24]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 7, November 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.