Desert

Journal Issue

The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1921)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Weare Holbrook’s Quid Iuvat Ornato.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 6 (October 1922)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Cornelia Meade Scarborough’s The Desert Passes.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 7 (November 1922)

Spell of Granite by John Drury marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Hugo Folliard’s Contemporary Literature.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 10 (February 1923)

In Tsi Ouan Wishes to Believe in Resurrection, Paul Eldridge brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus.

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Pegasus, Vol. 1, No. 2 (March 1923)

The second number looks more fully like a little magazine: Fred Gronberg appears as associate editor, a contents page maps the issue, and the editorial office is fixed at 2372 First Street, San Diego.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 3 (June 1923)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Pauline Garner Curran’s Neisan.

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

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Elizabeth J. Coatsworth’s The Dance.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 6 (October 1923)

A Pastel by Leonora F. Curtin marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 8 (December 1923)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Edith Miniter’s Purple Window Glass.

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Journal Issue

Pegasus, Vol. 1, No. 6 (February 1924)

The final number of Volume I joins Pegasus's local and experimental circle to two much more widely known western poets.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 11 (March 1924)

In a Railway Station by Mary Sinton Leitch marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 2 (November 1925)

In The Parable of Deepness, Vachel Lindsay brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus.

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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. 5, No. 6 (March 1926)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Geraldine Seelemire’s Bitter Creek.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 1 (October 1926)

In In the Province of Shantung, B. Y. Williams brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 7 (April 1927)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Henri Faust’s Whistles.

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Journal Issue

Bachy, No. 10 (1977)

Interview by Deena Metzger gives the issue its opening pressure.

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Anthology

Land of Sunshine and Out West – A Critical Anthology of 80 Poems

Land of Sunshine and Out West - A Critical Anthology of 80 Poems is an anthology made for browsing as well as sustained reading.

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Anthology

Lyric West – A Modernist Anthology

Lyric West - A Modernist Anthology gathers material from The Lyric West into a book that can stand on its own.

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Index

Lyric West – An Index of Poets

Lyric West - An Index of Poets is a working guide to the people and writing connected with The Lyric West.

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Index

Pegasus Poets and Poems Biographical Index

Pegasus Poets and Poems Biographical Index is a working guide to the people and writing connected with Pegasus.

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Anthology

Pegasus Selected Poems 1923 1924

Readers do not need to know the full history of Pegasus before opening Pegasus Selected Poems 1923 1924.

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Anthology

The Graphic – Literary Criticism and Culture (1904-1918)

The Graphic - Literary Criticism and Culture (1904-1918) gathers material from The Graphic into a book that can stand on its own.

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