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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 3 (June 1922)

Journal Issue

Modernism enters this number through A Late Passer by Hazel Hall. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “Sleep came like rose petals falling on my pillow”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Waiting—Mist and Aria 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. 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.

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Publication details
Journal
The Lyric West
Volume
2
Issue number
3
Issue date
June 1922
Editor
Roy Towner Thompson
Publisher
The Lyric West
Place of publication
Los Angeles, California
Language
English
Pagination
Original scan: 36 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 53 PDF pages.
Record ID
ttj-lyric-west-vol-2-no-3
Full contents
  • Waiting—Mist — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 3]
  • Aria — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 4]
  • Victor Watson—The Rancher — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 5]
  • The Hills of Santa Fe — Ruth Loomis Skeen [Poem, p. 6]
  • The Voice of the Wilderness — Catherine Parmenter [Poem, p. 6]
  • Mail Day — Elliott C. Lincoln [Poem, p. 7]
  • Triumph — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 7]
  • Fisher of Stars — Lew Sarett [Poem, p. 8]
  • Over the Hill — Bernard Raymund [Poem, p. 9]
  • Hills — Dixie McCarthy [Poem, p. 10]
  • A Wood-Carving — Whitelaw Saunders [Poem, p. 10]
  • In the Park — Rose Henderson [Poem, p. 10]
  • Echoes of Her — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 11]
  • A Late Passer — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 11]
  • On the Street — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 11]
  • Child Tropics Remembered in — Genevieve Taggard [Poem, p. 12]
  • The Destroyer — Eleanor M. Denny [Poem, p. 14]
  • The Geyser at Calistoga — Henrietta C. Penny [Poem, p. 15]
  • The Flute Player — Harold G. Borland [Poem, p. 16]
  • Woodland Sketches — Helen Thurston [Poem, p. 19]
  • The White Road — Nelchen Armstrong [Poem, p. 19]
  • The Return — Ethel Brooks Stillwell [Poem, p. 20]
  • To Fo Bargains with Deity — Paul Eldridge [Poem, p. 22]
  • Desire — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 23]
  • June Scherzo — Philip Gray [Poem, p. 23]
  • The Valedictorian — Allene Gates [Poem, p. 24]
  • A College Dance — Eunice T. Gray [Poem, p. 24]
  • Summer Rapture — Winifred Gray Stewart [Poem, p. 24]
  • Protest — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 25]
  • White-Throat — Bernice Lesbia Kenyon [Poem, p. 25]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 2, no. 3, June 1922. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.