Journal Issue
A New Epistle: Creativity in the Sixties by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 45 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print for Trace’s Next Ten Years by James Boyer May and A Close Look at the Actors widen the issue’s field. Dated Spring 1962, this substantial number indexes 37 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.
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- A New Epistle: Creativity in the Sixties — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 6]
- Towards Print for Trace’s Next Ten Years — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 7]
- A Close Look at the Actors [Contribution, p. 9]
- Dispersion into Anonymities or? [Contribution, p. 18]
- Of recent keen interest [Contribution, p. 23]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 36]
- Senisfal: a Letter [Contribution, p. 37]
- Brainstorm Construct for JBM, Editor [Contribution, p. 38]
- Form [Contribution, p. 38]
- ‘society [Contribution, p. 38]
- The Avant-Garde [Contribution, p. 38]
- JBM [Contribution, p. 39]
- Narrative Format [Contribution, p. 41]
- Operator [Contribution, p. 42]
- Customer [Contribution, p. 43]
- More on Little Mags for Classrooms — Howard McCord [Contribution, p. 43]
- And More . . . Plus Advice to Poets — Sue Abbott Boyd [Contribution, p. 45]
- Poets’ Union News — Tracy Thompson [Contribution, p. 47]
- An Interview with Alberto Moravia* — Gabriel d’Aubarède [Interview, p. 48]
- Freud Didn’t Teach Me a Thing [Contribution, p. 49]
- Must You Run — James Hargan [Contribution, p. 55]
- School Bells — James Hargan [Contribution, p. 56]
- Moons Face: in a Ruffled Pool — Parm Mayer [Contribution, p. 57]
- Ezekiel’s Wheel — Walter Lowenfels [Contribution, p. 77]
- A Communication from Second Biography — Ezekiel’s Wheel [Contribution, p. 77]
- The — Sugar-coated Pill — William A. Hoftyzer [Contribution, p. 81]
- Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 85]
- Skeletons and Marrow [Contribution, p. 85]
- A Consequence of Nakedness — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 100]
- A Forward Movement Through the Past [Contribution, p. 103]
- The Nude from the Grove of Academe [Contribution, p. 107]
- Calais — John Baker [Contribution, p. 111]
- Galax-sees & W-cees [Contribution, p. 112]
- Blues-riders—a Way — Hugh Collins [Contribution, p. 120]
- Peter Jones — Robert Hale [Contribution, p. 124]
- Next to No Time — Peter Jones [Contribution, p. 124]
- Until Further Notice [Contribution, p. 125]
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Trace, no. 45 (Spring 1962). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.