Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Arthur Jonson’s Poems for a Chinese Anthology. The poem builds by refrain and recurrence around “In the land of Sim”; repetition carries the poem’s turn rather than merely decorating it, bringing East Asian forms and translated perspectives into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, The Temple David Brooded On and Time 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.
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- The Temple David Brooded On — Agnes Kendrick Gray [Poem, p. 271]
- Time — Lilian Lewis [Poem, p. 273]
- Quaking Aspen — Monroe Heath [Poem, p. 274]
- Oh, Silver Moon — Alice Stetson [Poem, p. 275]
- The Singing Forest — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 276]
- Morning — Virgilio Luciani [Poem, p. 277]
- Feu Sacré — Hellene Seaman [Poem, p. 277]
- Liberated — Mabel Ruggles Cobb [Poem, p. 278]
- Poems for a Chinese Anthology — Arthur Jonson [Poem, p. 282]
- Optimism — Sylvia Lewis [Poem, p. 283]
- Autumn Threshold — Henri Faust [Poem, p. 284]
- To a Round Moon — Jessica Powers [Poem, p. 285]
- September — Catherine Parmenter [Poem, p. 286]
- Immortality — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 286]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 6, no. 10, September 1927. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.