Journal Issue
The Lighthouse and The Usual Song give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Across 14 poems, rhyme often serves as a way of tightening turns of thought: brief lyrics sit beside longer stanzaic arguments, while the sequence of titles keeps the pacing exact. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. The movement from The Lighthouse to The Usual Song gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.
Contributors
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- The Lighthouse — David Marcus [Poem, p. 3]
- Small Oasis — Eric Wilson Barker [Poem, p. 4]
- Fierce Interval — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 5]
- Tipton's Corners — Dorothy Haddox [Poem, p. 6]
- “Blind” — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 7]
- Song — Robert Beloof [Poem, p. 8]
- Vacationer — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 9]
- Sand — Sarah Foss Wolverton [Poem, p. 10]
- Song for Hannah — Orma Jean Surbey [Poem, p. 11]
- As I Lay Quiet — Margaret Widdemer [Poem, p. 12]
- Stubble — Stella Weston Tuttle [Poem, p. 13]
- Marauder — Aveline Perkins [Poem, p. 14]
- This Now — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 15]
- The Usual Song — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 16]
- Contributors' Notes [Contributor notes, p. 17]
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Copyright 1950 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1950 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Recurrence*, vol. I, no. 2, Autumn 1950. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.