
Journal Issue
The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 7 (November 1921)
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Pauline Barrington’s Los Angeles.
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Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Pauline Barrington’s Los Angeles.
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In Biography, Gwendolyn Haste brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus.
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River Songs by Norma Miller marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.
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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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Grover I. Jacoby, Jr’s 3-poem run, from To Fair Perplexity and Lake Elsewhere to The Nihilist’s Plaint, gives this issue its clearest formal center.
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