Death and elegy

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 8 (December 1922)

Modernism enters this number through Chamber Music by R. Ellsworth Larson.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 9 (January 1923)

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 5 (September 1923)

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 12 (April 1924)

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The Lyric West, Vol. 4, No. 10 (September 1925)

Chrysanthemums by Lucy Hale Sturges marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 5 (February 1926)

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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The Lyric West, Vol. 7, No. 1 (October 1927)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Richard Shelley’s A Warrior Returns Home.

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Variegation, Vol. IX, No. 33 (Winter 1954)

Cecil Kyle’s 5-poem run, from My Nirvana to Entreaty, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Beyond Baroque, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1969)

OF AN INSIGNIFICANT GROUND HOG'S DEATH by Edgar L. Biamonte establishes this number’s particular register.

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Comment in Motion, No. 7 (April 1969)

This number makes Unknown Spanish Writer the center of its experiment, carrying 8 poems—from The Dead Lover to All Is Night’s Darkness—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure.

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