Journal Issue
Modernism enters this number through Inland by Joan Dareth Prosper. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “He used to talk of ships, and I remember”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing Western landscape without the usual pastoral polish into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, The Terrible Gift and A Song to Spirit Thala, Who Is But Half keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. 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
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Full contents
- The Terrible Gift — Mary Caroline Davies [Poem, p. 163]
- A Song to Spirit Thala, Who Is But Half — Roberta Holloway [Poem, p. 164]
- Two Poems — Frank Mitvalsky [Poem, p. 165]
- Inland — Joan Dareth Prosper [Poem, p. 166]
- Motif — Margaret Tod Ritter [Poem, p. 167]
- The Secret Knowledge — Tonio [Poem, p. 168]
- Tom — S. Bert Cooksley [Poem, p. 169]
- Old Pain — Sheila O’Neil [Poem, p. 170]
- Cross Indicates Spot — Weare Holbrook [Poem, p. 171]
- The City of Destiny — Lilian Barrett [Poem, p. 172]
- Cloistered Mood — Mary Louise Rankin [Poem, p. 174]
- Segments — Challiss Silvay [Poem, p. 175]
- The Tall Gods Pass — Mary Louise Mabie [Poem, p. 176]
- Scarlet Heart — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 177]
- Voyagers — Henri Faust [Poem, p. 178]
- A Lincoln Incident — Leetha Journey Probst [Poem, p. 180]
- Ministry — Sydney King Russell [Poem, p. 182]
- Westerners — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 183]
- The Swatted Spirit — Cecil E. C. Hodgson [Poem, p. 191]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 6, March 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.