Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Patterson Greene’s The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “Her violin? Thank you. I do not want it”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Ecce Homo and At San Juan Capistrano 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. 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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- Ecce Homo — Beatrice Harmon [Poem, p. 3]
- At San Juan Capistrano — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 4]
- Arachne — Edith Mirick [Poem, p. 5]
- Romany — Harvey Sellers Dye [Poem, p. 6]
- The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest — Patterson Greene [Poem, p. 8]
- The Pearl of a Summer’s Sea — Leslie E. Baird [Poem, p. 9]
- Pro-Cathedral — Mary Brennan Clapp [Poem, p. 10]
- Old Houses — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 11]
- My City — Read Bain [Poem, p. 12]
- Night Ride — Mildred Plew Merryman [Poem, p. 13]
- Dragon Flies — Helen von Kolnitz Hyer [Poem, p. 14]
- African Sunset — Helen von Kolnitz Hyer [Poem, p. 15]
- Moon-Men — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 16]
- Perhaps — Charles Howard Marsh [Poem, p. 18]
- Miracles — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 19]
- When Next You Come — Natalie Flohr [Poem, p. 20]
- Offering — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 21]
- Nude Sleeper — Joseph Upper [Poem, p. 22]
- Resurrection — Joseph Upper [Poem, p. 23]
- The Sculptor — Jane Morrill [Poem, p. 24]
- A Lady’s Way — Jane Morrill [Poem, p. 25]
- The Interloper — Ruth Aughiltree [Poem, p. 26]
- To Fo — Passé — Paul Eldridge [Poem, p. 27]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 5, no. 1, October 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.