Journal Issue
William Millett’s 4-poem run, from Blind Man to Trains Mourn Their Distance, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 14 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, In Mexico and Myths for Mortals widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
Contributors
- Cecil Kyle
- Bernard Barrow
- Eleanor Glenn Wallis
- William Millett
- Elinor Lennen
- Gertrude May Lutz
- Meade Randolph Loomis
- Helen Travis
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- In Mexico — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 43]
- Moment — Bernard Barrow [Poem, p. 44]
- The Silent One — Eleanor Glenn Wallis [Poem, p. 45]
- Blind Man — William Millett [Poem, p. 46]
- Our Limited Skin — William Millett [Poem, p. 47]
- Drought — William Millett [Poem, p. 48]
- Trains Mourn Their Distance — William Millett [Poem, p. 49]
- Original — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 50]
- Brief Moment — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 51]
- Treasures of the Dark — Meade Randolph Loomis [Poem, p. 52]
- Surgery — Helen Travis [Poem, p. 53]
- Interval of Replenishment — Peter M. Urquhart [Poem, p. 54]
- Solitude — Peter M. Urquhart [Poem, p. 55]
- Myths for Mortals — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 56]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 57]
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. 31, Summer 1953. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.