Journal Issue
A Garden Plot of Ephemerals and Dirge for a Dead Manuscript give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 12 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
- Hanson Kellogg
- Dorothy Millikin
- Emily White
- Rosalie Moore
- Grover Jacoby
- Eunice Clise
- Gertrude Schleier
- Eric Wilson Barker
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- A Garden Plot of Ephemerals — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 3]
- The Heritage — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 6]
- Now the Quieting — Dorothy Millikin [Poem, p. 7]
- Domestic Year — Emily White [Poem, p. 8]
- Shepherd — Rosalie Moore [Poem, p. 9]
- The Great Rider — Grover Jacoby [Poem, p. 10]
- One Aspect of Poseidon — Grover Jacoby [Poem, p. 11]
- Octopus — Eunice Clise [Poem, p. 12]
- Finite — Eunice Clise [Poem, p. 13]
- Pantomime — Gertrude Schleier [Poem, p. 14]
- Big Sur — Eric Wilson Barker [Poem, p. 15]
- Dirge for a Dead Manuscript — Eric Wilson Barker [Poem, p. 16]
- Poem Reviews — Terence Smith · Snow Longley Housh [Essay, p. 17]
- Contributors’ Notes [Contributor notes, p. 19]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1951
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The issue bears a 1951 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. VI, no. 3, Summer 1951. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.