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The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1921)

In Gaydiang, Ruth Comfort Mitchell brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 3 (June 1921)

Redondo by the Sea by Pauline Barrington marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 8 (December 1921)

In the Telephone Book by Eda Lu Walton marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 4 (August 1922)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Rolfe Humphries’s Evening on Tahoe.

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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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Pegasus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1923)

Pegasus begins as a deliberately small San Diego magazine: W. H. Lench is named editor and publisher, and the opening roster balances local coastal imagery with a wider lyric register.

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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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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. 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. 3, No. 12 (April 1924)

Modernism enters this number through Wind Prints of a Dancer by Charmian von Wiegand.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 4, No. 7 (April 1925)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Mary Brennan Clapp’s Ether.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 1 (October 1925)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Patterson Greene’s The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 3 (December 1925)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Frances Wierman’s City Rivers.

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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. 5, No. 8 (June 1926)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Grace Stone Coates’s Diathesis.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 9 (August 1926)

Translations of Original Japanese Tanka by Yorozu Tsurumi marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 1926)

Wolf-Dawn by Geraldine Seelemire marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 8 (May 1927)

Moon-Storm by Dana Burnet marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 9 (June 1927)

Modernism enters this number through Cerebral by Lilian White Spencer.

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Variegation, No. 1 (January 1946)

In the Colors of the Heart and City Seen from an Airplane give the issue a strong interest in water and weather.

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Variegation, No. 2 (April 1946)

Marcia Masters’s 3-poem run, from Little Town to Lilac, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. II, No. 3 (Summer 1947)

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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Variegation, Vol. III, No. 4 (Autumn 1948)

Hanson Kellogg’s 5-poem run, from Dedicatory Invocation for a Public Library to Valley Harbor, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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