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Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in George H. Dillon’s Beauty Trembled Close. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “Girl, when you say that love is all — that love”; 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. William E. Scotten, Jr’s Dawn answers it from another angle: it compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “How would you have the day come”; pause and white space become part of the measure. The presence of a named form such as Sonnet makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
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- I Bring You Silence, My Beloved — Nellie Burget Miller [Poem, p. 99]
- Lyric — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 100]
- Magic — Virginia McCormick [Poem, p. 101]
- Sonnet — Belle Cooper [Poem, p. 102]
- Two Poems — Maud Elfrid Uschold [Poem, p. 103]
- Nightfall on the Lynnhaven — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 104]
- Two Poems — Ruth Bernice Mead [Poem, p. 105]
- Three Sonnets — George H. Dillon [Poem, p. 106]
- The Windmill — Claire Wilson [Poem, p. 108]
- Dreams — Bertha Roberts [Poem, p. 109]
- Dawn — William E. Scotten, Jr [Poem, p. 110]
- Hope — Elsa M. Tourelle [Poem, p. 111]
- Five Poems — Frank Mitvalsky [Poem, p. 112]
- Egyptian Evening — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 114]
- Three Lyrics — Sallie Kinsman [Poem, p. 115]
- I, the Tao — Alice Fay [Poem, p. 116]
- Virgin Birth — Ruth E. Hopkins [Poem, p. 117]
- Two Lyrics — Alice Forté [Poem, p. 118]
- There Is No Peace in Love — Sarah Hammond Kelly [Poem, p. 119]
- Indian Giver — Josephine Johnson [Poem, p. 120]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 4, January 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.