Journal Issue
Towards Print (where We’ve Been . . . Where We’re Going?) by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 71 its clearest point of entry, while Incest Among Editors by William V. Davis and Graphics Poetry by Hugh Fox widen the issue’s field. Dated Mid–18th Year 1970, this substantial number indexes 22 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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- Towards Print (where We’ve Been . . . Where We’re Going?) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 6]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 17]
- Incest Among Editors — William V. Davis [Contribution, p. 18]
- Graphics Poetry — Hugh Fox [Contribution, p. 22]
- Ana Etcetera* [Contribution, p. 26]
- The Sweet Fragrance of Jazz Men — Gene Fowler [Essay, p. 38]
- The History of Poetry as — Rosellen Brown [Contribution, p. 44]
- (from Maps) — Toby Olson [Contribution, p. 54]
- The Crossing (5 Poems) — Wai-lim Yip [Poem, p. 56]
- III — Wai-lim Yip [Contribution, p. 58]
- Cappelbaum Drops out — Stanley Cooperman [Poem, p. 66]
- III [Contribution, p. 89]
- The Way to Be Real — Marvin Cohen [Contribution, p. 93]
- Gray Town [Contribution, p. 97]
- Ladies Always Carry — Dave Margoshes [Fiction, p. 108]
- Dave Margoshes [Contribution, p. 111]
- Green Wish No. 2 — Myron Levoy [Contribution, p. 116]
- Anecdote I — Suzanne Ostro Zavrian [Contribution, p. 122]
- the double agent — Alvin Greenberg [Contribution, p. 127]
- Poetry Can Kill You — E. F. Wells [Contribution, p. 137]
- A Scholarly Work — for Nonscholars, Too [Contribution, p. 151]
- Hello, John O’hara, Good-bye [Contribution, p. 153]
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Trace, no. 71 (Mid–18th Year 1970). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.