Journal Issue
Pastoral and To a Cat, Not Royal give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Across 13 poems, rhyme often serves as a way of tightening turns of thought: brief lyrics sit beside longer stanzaic arguments, while the sequence of titles keeps the pacing exact. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. The movement from Pastoral to To a Cat, Not Royal gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.
Contributors
- Ann Stanford
- Leslie Nelson Jennings
- Hildegarde Flanner
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Carleton Drewry
- Charles Edward Eaton
- May Sarton
- Isabel Harriss Barr
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Pastoral — Ann Stanford [Poem, p. 3]
- The Sailor On Circe's Isle — Ann Stanford [Poem, p. 4]
- Hawk — Leslie Nelson Jennings [Poem, p. 6]
- To a Small Plant of the High Sierras — Hildegarde Flanner [Poem, p. 7]
- Hush — Josephine Jacobsen [Poem, p. 8]
- For Marcel Proust — Josephine Jacobsen [Poem, p. 9]
- Cry Solace — Carleton Drewry [Poem, p. 10]
- The April Medusa — Charles Edward Eaton [Poem, p. 11]
- A Light Left On — May Sarton [Poem, p. 12]
- Augenblick — May Sarton [Poem, p. 13]
- Unwilling Trespasser — Isabel Harriss Barr [Poem, p. 14]
- Excuse for Missing a Bus — Elma Dean [Poem, p. 15]
- To a Cat, Not Royal — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 16]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 18]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1952 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1952 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Recurrence*, vol. II, no. 8, Spring 1952. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.