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The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Weare Holbrook’s Threnody. The poem builds by refrain and recurrence around “It’s queer, because I seldom get the time”; repetition carries the poem’s turn rather than merely decorating it, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. John Northern Hilliard’s Sestina of the Spieler answers it from another angle: it organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “The way I size it up, this life’s a show”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza. The presence of a named form such as Ballad of the Scotty Mine 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.
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- Five Poems — Sigrid Sittig [Poem, p. 35]
- The Old Home — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 37]
- Threnody — Weare Holbrook [Poem, p. 38]
- Choice — Winifred Davidson [Poem, p. 39]
- The Passing — Dorothy Hawley Cartwright [Poem, p. 40]
- If You Had Died — Ada Hastings Hedges [Poem, p. 41]
- Ballad of the Scotty Mine — Wilson O. Clough [Poem, p. 42]
- Magic — Martha Davis [Poem, p. 44]
- Wasted Years — Jessie Call [Poem, p. 45]
- The Missive — Edna Constance Willard [Poem, p. 46]
- Theft — Ellinor Lehnherr Norcross [Poem, p. 47]
- Sestina of the Spieler — John Northern Hilliard [Poem, p. 48]
- Breath of the Honeysuckle — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 50]
- The Mill — Beulah May [Poem, p. 51]
- Pigeons Flying — Lucia Clark Markham [Poem, p. 52]
- Petition — Agnes M. Miall [Poem, p. 53]
- The Buddhist’s Bell — Alice McCray Walther [Poem, p. 54]
- Personalities — May Williams Ward [Poem, p. 56]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 2, November 1924. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.