Journal Issue
Cecil Kyle’s 4-poem run, from Retreat to Ascent, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 15 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, Aftermath and Rain widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
Contributors
- Peter M. Urquhart
- Maureen Cobb Mabbott
- Ray Ballard
- Cecil Kyle
- Myron H. Broomell
- David Borden
- Kathryn Ainsworth Grover
- Elinor Lennen
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Aftermath — Peter M. Urquhart [Poem, p. 3]
- The Glimpse — Maureen Cobb Mabbott [Poem, p. 4]
- Still Life Abstraction — Maureen Cobb Mabbott [Poem, p. 5]
- Today — Ray Ballard [Poem, p. 6]
- Retreat — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 7]
- Self-Portrait — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 8]
- Old Woman — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 9]
- Ascent — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 10]
- Skilled Labor — Myron H. Broomell [Poem, p. 11]
- The Enchanted Recluse — David Borden [Poem, p. 12]
- Star Fever — Kathryn Ainsworth Grover [Poem, p. 13]
- Chronicle on Space — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 14]
- Your Tree — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 15]
- Maiden Lady — Marie Erwin Ward [Poem, p. 16]
- Rain — Robert Townsend Rogers [Poem, p. 17]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 18]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1953 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1953 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. VIII, no. 29, Winter 1953. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.