Journal Issue
E. MacDermott Johnston’s 4-poem run, from Anno Domini 1947 to Politician, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 21 poems are compact, but their free-verse lines vary the pace through clipped statements, longer syntactic runs, and small sequences that let one voice change pressure across several pages. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. Around that sequence, Time's Serf and Translation from Friedrich Holderlin widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
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- Time's Serf — Lucille Evans [Poem, p. 5]
- For Certain Knowledge — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 6]
- Years — Virgie Bernhardt [Poem, p. 7]
- Anno Domini 1947 — E. MacDermott Johnston [Poem, p. 8]
- Key-Child — E. MacDermott Johnston [Poem, p. 8]
- The Cruel Intention — E. MacDermott Johnston [Poem, p. 9]
- Politician — E. MacDermott Johnston [Poem, p. 9]
- Daisies — Marcia Nichols Holden [Poem, p. 10]
- Spring Tapestry — Fanny Montague Hunt [Poem, p. 10]
- Wise One — Barbara Levin [Poem, p. 11]
- City Dawn — Dorothy Hobson [Poem, p. 12]
- Climbing Radiance — Rosalie S. Jacoby [Poem, p. 13]
- Paradox — Jane Morrison [Poem, p. 13]
- Moonlight in the Villa — Richard Wirtz Emerson [Poem, p. 14]
- The Alley Cat and I — Irma Dovey [Poem, p. 15]
- Wind Words — Starr Jenkins [Poem, p. 16]
- Train Whistles — Lillie Hall Antonakos [Poem, p. 17]
- Sponsored Radio — John Moore [Poem, p. 17]
- Fruition — Snow Longley Housh [Poem, p. 18]
- Conjunction — Snow Longley Housh [Poem, p. 19]
- Translation from Friedrich Holderlin [Poem, p. 20]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1947 by Grover I. Jacoby, Jr.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1947 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. II, no. 4, Autumn 1947. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.