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The Lyric West, Vol. 4, No. 9 (July 1925)
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Richard A. Summers’s Earthquake.
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Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Richard A. Summers’s Earthquake.
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The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Patterson Greene’s The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest.
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Modernism enters this number through Montana Lake by Robert E. Wade, Jr. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The Japanese painters know”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing East Asian forms and translated perspectives into the magazine’s field of subjects.
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