Extremes & ModerationsA Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry

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The Myth and The Pigeons give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Across 13 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 Myth to The Pigeons gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.

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  • The Myth — Myron H. Broomell [Poem, p. 63]
  • The Seer — Myron H. Broomell [Poem, p. 64]
  • Meridian — Ethan Ayer [Poem, p. 65]
  • No Journey to the Moon — Anne Barlow [Poem, p. 66]
  • Late Spring Frost — Barbara Leslie Jordan [Poem, p. 67]
  • Return — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 68]
  • Etched in Shadows — Hannah Kahn [Poem, p. 69]
  • In Symbol — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 70]
  • The Last Afternoon — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 71]
  • Fire and Stone — Eric Barker [Poem, p. 72]
  • Bird Song Under Rain — Willis Eberman [Poem, p. 74]
  • Teresa's Hands — Oliver E. Townsend [Poem, p. 75]
  • The Pigeons — Eleanor Glenn Wallis [Poem, p. 76]
  • Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 77]
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Copyright 1954 by Grover Jacoby

Copyright Status Unresolved

The issue bears a 1954 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Recurrence*, vol. IV, no. 16, Spring 1954. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.