Journal Issue
Translations of Original Japanese Tanka by Yorozu Tsurumi marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “The hills dressed in autumn fire”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing East Asian forms and translated perspectives into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Message and Four and a Picnic 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 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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- Message — Margaret Widdemer [Poem, p. 245]
- Four and a Picnic — Portia Martin [Poem, p. 246]
- Unto the Hills — Doris Clute [Poem, p. 249]
- The Workman — Beulah May [Poem, p. 251]
- The Poet — Robert Haven Schauffler [Poem, p. 252]
- My Songs — Louis Ginsberg [Poem, p. 252]
- Query — Noel Stearn [Poem, p. 253]
- Weaving — Winifred Gray Stewart [Poem, p. 253]
- Dramatic Poet — Chard Powers Smith [Poem, p. 254]
- At Emerald Bay — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 255]
- At Figueroa — Anna Catherine Markham [Poem, p. 255]
- Scherzo — Joan D. Prosper [Poem, p. 256]
- Cinquain — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 256]
- When — Ariel Royal [Poem, p. 257]
- The Ghost — Hugh W. Ramsaur [Poem, p. 257]
- A Woman on the Shore — Mildred Fowler Field [Poem, p. 258]
- Burnt Offering — Katharine D. Kendig [Poem, p. 259]
- The Army of Occupation — Alberta Bancroft [Poem, p. 260]
- Thirteenth Labor — Jacques Le Clercq [Poem, p. 261]
- Out of the West — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 262]
- Translations of Original Japanese Tanka — Yorozu Tsurumi [Poem, p. 263]
- Alabaster — Raymond Kresensky [Poem, p. 264]
- Silences — Ethel Brodt Wilson [Poem, p. 264]
- Sea Song — Julia Clara Birk [Poem, p. 265]
- Youth — Grace E. Reeves [Poem, p. 265]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 5, no. 9, August 1926. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.