Trace, No. 72–73 (Autumn 1970) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

Towards Print by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 72–73 its clearest point of entry, while TO DO or NOT TO DO by Hale Chatfield and Fragment from Second Lifetime by Will Slotnikoff widen the issue’s field. Dated Autumn 1970, this expansive number indexes 55 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. 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. As the final number, it also reads as a deliberate summing-up of the magazine’s eighteen-year run.

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Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 72–73
Issue date: Autumn 1970
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 356 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 331 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-72-73-1970

Full contents

Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 8]
New Listings [Reference, p. 15]
TO DO or NOT TO DO — Hale Chatfield [Essay, p. 15]
Fragment from Second Lifetime — Will Slotnikoff [Contribution, p. 24]
Two Letters from Correspondence with a Deipnosophist* — Will Slotnikoff [Contribution, p. 24]
A Nice Time After the News Special — William A Roecker [Poem, p. 38]
McLuhan’s Mafia [Contribution, p. 39]
Exhibition [Contribution, p. 64]
Watching Lightning — Michael G. Culross [Poem, p. 81]
(for Robert Berner) — Watching Lightning [Contribution, p. 81]
Creating Love by Speech — Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 85]
Sound of Alive [Contribution, p. 88]
Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 91]
Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 96]
Jay Bail [Contribution, p. 99]
They — R. D. Skillings [Contribution, p. 101]
Young Men Are No Match for Old Ladies — Richard Lyons [Contribution, p. 112]
Four Poems — Rainer Schulte [Poem, p. 115]
Photography — Lois Siegel [Artwork, p. 116]
Richard Lyons [Contribution, p. 120]
Richard Lyons [Contribution, p. 123]
Prime Time [Contribution, p. 133]
Dissertation in Desperation — Andrew Neiderman [Contribution, p. 135]
A Day in the Life of Love War Hair Literature — Cynthia Buchanan [Contribution, p. 136]
Jack London Blazed My Trail — François Pasqualini [Contribution, p. 146]
After Effects — Michael Finlay [Contribution, p. 150]
Quinquentennial Convocation — W. R. Young [Contribution, p. 151]
Science, Literature, & Magic: Reflections of a Physicist [Contribution, p. 165]
from the Grandfather Cycle — David Rafael Wang [Contribution, p. 187]
Four T’ang & Sung Poems — David Rafael Wang [Poem, p. 188]
III. The Festival of Ching Ming — David Rafael Wang [Contribution, p. 188]
IV. She (A Song) [Contribution, p. 189]
Recalling Norman Thomas — Dorothy Ellin Flax [Contribution, p. 201]
Waking up — Irene Schram [Fiction, p. 211]
tossing in the bed [Contribution, p. 212]
The Alphabet of Mathematics — Paul Friedman [Fiction, p. 220]
Paul Friedman [Contribution, p. 222]
Paul Friedman [Contribution, p. 225]
Excerpt from the Contortionist — Samuel A. Eisenstein [Contribution, p. 230]
From Allee Allee in Free — Carl Linder [Fiction, p. 242]
(preliminary draft of a novel) — From Allee Allee in Free [Contribution, p. 242]
woman of the oven — Carl Linder [Contribution, p. 253]
A Series of Three Prose Portraits from a Novel in Progress — Michael Mott [Contribution, p. 258]
A Brief Portrait and Analysis of Potstick — Bruton Connors [Contribution, p. 261]
Carnegie — Keith Gunderson [Contribution, p. 263]
Poem for My Students — Robert McRoberts [Poem, p. 265]
In Commemoration of My Birth — Charles Robinson [Poem, p. 268]
In-group Theory — Paul Robert Davidson [Contribution, p. 270]
The Shy Octopus — Adam Makkaï [Contribution, p. 271]
Jean Toomer’s Cane — Gail Walker [Essay, p. 273]
A Balancing Monster of Love — Bruce Nesbitt [Essay, p. 279]
Blanco: a New Synthesis of the Poetry of Octavio Paz — Ramon Xirau [Contribution, p. 288]
Our Diluted Iris — Mary Graham Lund [Essay, p. 292]
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pen — Charles Doyle [Poem, p. 302]
The White Collar Drop-outs — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 303]

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Trace, no. 72–73 (Autumn 1970). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.