Journal Issue
The Orient Visits New York by Chi-Hwang Chu and Edna Worthley Underwood marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “Stealing leisure in the silent night I follow my feet”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Quest and Sequoia 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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- Quest — Douglass Whitehead [Poem, p. 95]
- Sequoia — LeRoy McLeod [Poem, p. 96]
- Aphrodite — Anne Persov [Poem, p. 99]
- Another Sunset — Helen Lockwood Coffin [Poem, p. 100]
- Pampas-Bloom — Bessie Pryor Palmer [Poem, p. 101]
- A Day Went By — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 102]
- Hymn to the Rockies — Margaret Tod Ritter [Poem, p. 102]
- A Silver World, This — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem, p. 103]
- January — Sigrid Sittig [Poem, p. 103]
- The Orient Visits New York — Chi-Hwang Chu and Edna Worthley Underwood [Poem, p. 104]
- Incantation — Lucy Hale Sturges [Poem, p. 107]
- A Stranger in Judea — Alice Harriman [Poem, p. 108]
- Plant Salvia for Me! — Molly Anderson Haley [Poem, p. 109]
- Remonstrance — Robert Haven Schauffler [Poem, p. 110]
- Misgiving — George Maxwell [Poem, p. 111]
- At The Tambourine — James Lloyd Woodruff [Poem, p. 112]
- Needlewomen — Helen Adele Rogers [Poem, p. 115]
- The Oil Field — Harrison Giddings [Poem, p. 115]
- “Slow Smoke” — Lois Burton Moon [Poem, p. 120]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 5, no. 4, January 1926. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.