Journal Issue
Life Sentence and Seal Rocks give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 7 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. The closing Poem Reviews shifts the number from practice to criticism, making its stylistic choices explicit without flattening the contrasts among the poems.
Contributors
- Elinor Lennen
- Howard Sergeant
- Nell Tucker
- Leslie Woolf Hedley
- Mary Moores
- Aveline Perkins
- Gertrude May Lutz
- Hanson Kellogg
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Life Sentence — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 3]
- Dialectic Before the Journey — Howard Sergeant [Poem, p. 4]
- False Spring — Nell Tucker [Poem, p. 8]
- There Is Graceful Explosion — Leslie Woolf Hedley [Poem, p. 9]
- Awakening — Mary Moores [Poem, p. 10]
- Assignments — Aveline Perkins [Poem, p. 11]
- Seal Rocks — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 16]
- Poem Reviews — Hanson Kellogg - Elinor Lennen - Winifred M. Johnson - Aveline Perkins - Grover Jacoby [Essay, p. 18]
- Contributors' Notes [Contributor notes, p. 21]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1950 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1950 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. V, no. 3, Summer 1950. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.