Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Rolfe Humphries’s February. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “with a sudden flurry of rain”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Weare Holbrook’s The Drifter’s Wife answers it from another angle: it organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “Move on, Charlie Davis! Don’t talk to me so”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
Contributors
- Joseph Andrew Galahad
- Mary Brent Whiteside
- Dorothea Myrto Childs
- Hortense Flexner
- Sada Cowan
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Mary Meisinger
- George F. Forster
More contributors (21)
- Wright Field
- Kate Blackman
- Bernardine Algert
- Margery Swett
- Floyd Meredith
- William Foster Elliot
- Neal Gallatin
- George Stirling
- Torrey Connor
- Helen Frazee-Bower
- Lillian White Spencer
- W. H. Lench
- Dorothy Page
- Arthur W. Atkinson
- Rolfe Humphries
- Weare Holbrook
- Joy Bennett
- Nora B. Cunningham
- Ames Peterson
- Nancy Ellen White
- Mary Lennox
Publication details
Full contents
- Isolde — Joseph Andrew Galahad [Poem, p. 3]
- Guests — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 4]
- Awakened Love — Dorothea Myrto Childs [Poem, p. 4]
- Prophecy — Hortense Flexner [Poem, p. 5]
- An Egyptian Love Song — Sada Cowan [Poem, p. 5]
- Haunting — Clark Ashton Smith [Poem, p. 6]
- Fantasy — Mary Meisinger [Poem, p. 6]
- An Indian Lover Sings — George F. Forster [Poem, p. 7]
- Flower-o’-the-Wind — Wright Field [Poem, p. 8]
- Song of the Reeds — Kate Blackman [Poem, p. 8]
- Song of a Ballerina — Bernardine Algert [Poem, p. 9]
- Complaint of a Vagabond — Bernardine Algert [Poem, p. 9]
- A Singer Says Good-Bye — Margery Swett [Poem, p. 10]
- Impermanence — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 12]
- Defeat — William Foster Elliot [Poem, p. 13]
- To Eleanor from the City — William Foster Elliot [Poem, p. 13]
- Astral Stones — Neal Gallatin [Poem, p. 14]
- Problem — George Stirling [Poem, p. 16]
- Twilight at Dolores — Torrey Connor [Poem, p. 16]
- Night Silence — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 17]
- San Miguel Tlaxcaltecos — Lillian White Spencer [Poem, p. 17]
- Desire — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 18]
- Whimsy — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 18]
- To the Northern Lights — Arthur W. Atkinson [Poem, p. 19]
- February — Rolfe Humphries [Poem, p. 19]
- The Drifter’s Wife — Weare Holbrook [Poem, p. 20]
- Thoughts — Joy Bennett [Poem, p. 21]
- To You — Joy Bennett [Poem, p. 21]
- The Captive — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 22]
- Old Gardens — Ames Peterson [Poem, p. 22]
- World Wonder — Nancy Ellen White [Poem, p. 23]
- California, Sweet Homeland of Mine — Mary Lennox [Poem]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 10, February 1922. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.