Journal Issue
Redondo by the Sea by Pauline Barrington marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The fish seller rises from his poor bed”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing work and modern routine into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Apercus and Fragments keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. The issue catches Los Angeles poetry culture in transition: polished song remains public currency, but modernist compression and contemporary speech have begun to alter what a lyric can hold.
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- Apercus — Richard Burton [Poem, p. 3]
- Fragments — Anonymous [Poem, p. 4]
- My Poverty — Harry Noyes Pratt [Poem, p. 5]
- Youth Intrepid — Earl Robinson [Poem, p. 6]
- A Study in Black and White — Ada Kyle Lynch [Poem, p. 6]
- Lines — David N. Grokowsky [Poem, p. 7]
- The Alien — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 8]
- The Grand Canyon — Helen Runyon Belknap [Poem, p. 10]
- Trees at Night — James M. Warnack [Poem, p. 11]
- Escaped — Gene Stratton Porter [Poem, p. 12]
- House o’ Dreams — Ellen Morrill Mills [Poem, p. 13]
- The Eye Is Not Filled With Seeing — Emily Ferl [Poem, p. 15]
- A Miracle — Jessie Yarnell Kimball [Poem, p. 16]
- The Magnet — Mary Day Winn [Poem, p. 17]
- The Cordilleras — Lillian Barker Beede [Poem, p. 18]
- Dream-Tracks — Grace Wallace [Poem, p. 19]
- The Rose, the Wind and the Rain — Alice Whitcraft Forsyth [Poem, p. 20]
- Redondo by the Sea — Pauline Barrington [Poem, p. 22]
- To a Humming-Bird — Virginia Burton Bradley [Poem, p. 25]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 3, June 1921. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.