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

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Journal Issue

The Well and A Touch of Old New York 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 Well to A Touch of Old New York gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.

Contributors

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  • The Well — Leah Bodine Drake [Poem, p. 63]
  • Lost Landscape — Ethan Ayer [Poem, p. 64]
  • Fire Hydrant — George Abbe [Poem, p. 65]
  • Survival of the Snail — Grover Jacoby [Poem, p. 66]
  • Horsetail Grass — Mary Winter [Poem, p. 67]
  • The Forgotten Year — Elizabeth Bartlett [Poem, p. 68]
  • New England Spring — Frances Minturn Howard [Poem, p. 69]
  • The Watcher — Eloise Downer [Poem, p. 70]
  • In Briefly Passing — Donna Guyer [Poem, p. 71]
  • Frustration — Candace T. Stevenson [Poem, p. 72]
  • Pasture — Candace T. Stevenson [Poem, p. 73]
  • Unaccountables — Sara King Carleton [Poem, p. 74]
  • Relativity — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 75]
  • A Touch of Old New York — Dorothy Hughes [Poem, p. 76]
  • Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 77]
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Copyright 1955 by Grover Jacoby

Copyright Status Unresolved

The issue bears a 1955 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Recurrence*, vol. V, no. 20, Spring 1955. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.