Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Gwendolen Haste’s The Woman of Windy Flat. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “She used to run to the clump of cedars”; 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. Chang Yo-hsu’s Spring River: Flowers and Moon at Night answers it from another angle: it uses rhetorical punctuation to disturb an otherwise measured line around “Spring river and tide waters find the sea level”; exclamation and question become rhythmic events. The presence of a named form such as Sonnets to a Little Girl 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
- Norma Miller
- Howard McKinley Corning
- John Russell McCarthy
- Arthur C. Inman
- Loretta Roche
- Gwendolen Haste
- Margery Swett
- Chang Yo-hsu
More contributors (27)
- Hazel Hall
- Grace Clementine Howes
- Walter B. Wolfe
- Yetta Kay Stoddard
- Dorothy Hoskins Allen
- Paul S. Nickerson
- Bernardine Algert
- Annice Calland
- Margaret Widdemer
- Grace E. Hall
- N. Bryllion Fagin
- Ethel Marjorie Knapp
- Benjamin Rosenbaum
- May Williams Ward
- Miriam Allen de Ford
- Jessie Vaughn Harrier
- George Brandon Saul
- Roy Temple House
- Stanton A. Coblentz
- Ethel Turner
- Frances L. Cooper
- Virgil Geddes
- Lucia Clark Markham
- Dorothy Hawley Cartwright
- Louise Webster
- W. K. Jones
- J. Corson Miller
Publication details
Full contents
- Spring Tarries Long — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 3]
- White Burial — Howard McKinley Corning [Poem, p. 3]
- Spark Out of Heaven — John Russell McCarthy [Poem, p. 4]
- The Ocean — Arthur C. Inman [Poem, p. 6]
- To Columbine — Arthur C. Inman [Poem, p. 7]
- Image — Loretta Roche [Poem, p. 7]
- Absence — Loretta Roche [Poem, p. 7]
- Return — Loretta Roche [Poem, p. 7]
- The Woman of Windy Flat — Gwendolen Haste [Poem, p. 8]
- In a Doorway — Margery Swett [Poem, p. 9]
- Spring River: Flowers and Moon at Night — Chang Yo-hsu [Poem, p. 10]
- Inland — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 11]
- The Mountains — Grace Clementine Howes [Poem, p. 12]
- Casseopeia — Walter B. Wolfe [Poem, p. 13]
- You Shall Sail — Yetta Kay Stoddard [Poem, p. 13]
- Harlequin Married — Dorothy Hoskins Allen [Poem, p. 14]
- Dumb — Paul S. Nickerson [Poem, p. 14]
- Valentine — Bernardine Algert [Poem, p. 15]
- My Debt to You — Annice Calland [Poem, p. 15]
- Glamour — Margaret Widdemer [Poem, p. 16]
- Memories — Grace E. Hall [Poem, p. 16]
- A Name — N. Bryllion Fagin [Poem, p. 17]
- The Mother-Heart — Ethel Marjorie Knapp [Poem, p. 19]
- Saul — Benjamin Rosenbaum [Poem, p. 20]
- Hill Souls — Benjamin Rosenbaum [Poem, p. 20]
- The Restless Tamed — May Williams Ward [Poem, p. 20]
- Summum Donum — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem, p. 21]
- “I Wonder What a Cocker Spaniel Thinks — Jessie Vaughn Harrier [Poem, p. 21]
- The Poet — George Brandon Saul [Poem, p. 22]
- Tankas from the Japanese — Roy Temple House [Poem, p. 22]
- Memory and Dream — Stanton A. Coblentz [Poem, p. 23]
- The Dark — Ethel Turner [Poem, p. 24]
- The Blue Places — Frances L. Cooper [Poem, p. 24]
- Quarry Workmen — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 24]
- Sonnets to a Little Girl — Lucia Clark Markham [Poem, p. 25]
- To a Young Idealist — Dorothy Hawley Cartwright [Poem, p. 26]
- The Journey — Louise Webster [Poem, p. 26]
- To Thomas Gray — W. K. Jones [Poem, p. 27]
- Sonnet — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 28]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 10, February 1924. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.