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

Journal Issue

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Rolfe Humphries’s Evening on Tahoe. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “There’s been a forest fire somewhere to-day”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing machines and accelerated travel into the magazine’s field of subjects. Virgil Geddes’s Summer Movement answers it from another angle: it compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Heat on a summer afternoon”; pause and white space become part of the measure. 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 this Los Angeles setting, modernism appears less as a manifesto than as a widening of permissible rhythm, image, and subject within a magazine still hospitable to rhyme.

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Publication details

Journal: The Lyric West
Volume: 2
Issue number: 4
Issue date: August 1922
Editor: Roy Towner Thompson
Publisher: The Lyric West
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 45 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 70 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-lyric-west-vol-2-no-4

Full contents

There Is No Word — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 3]
Sea Gulls — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 3]
Sea Lover — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 4]
Thoughts of a Bookkeeper — Mildred Plew Merryman [Poem, p. 4]
Moods — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 5]
The Old Men — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 5]
Night Song — Dorothy S. Collins [Poem, p. 5]
Sea Cliff — Constance Lindsay Skinner [Poem, p. 6]
Thwarted — William Ellwell Onions [Poem, p. 7]
Immortality — Henrietta C. Barr [Poem, p. 8]
Sea Winds — Gordon Malherbe Hillman [Poem, p. 8]
The Sea Is Like a Nun — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 8]
Sunsets — Josephine van Dolzen Pease [Poem, p. 9]
“I Have Climbed the Dark Hills” — Esther Yarnell [Poem, p. 10]
An Old Garden by the Sea — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 10]
Long Nook — Agnes Louise Dean [Poem, p. 11]
North Wind — Eleanor Preston Watkins [Poem, p. 12]
The Embarcadero — Harry Noyes Pratt [Poem, p. 13]
Distances — Harold Vinal [Poem, p. 13]
Farewell at Twilight to San — Cavan Lyttyl [Poem, p. 14]
Boats in the Mist — Ethel D. Turner [Poem, p. 15]
Point Loma Breezes — Yetta Kay Stoddard [Poem, p. 16]
Boy in the Surf — Roy T. Thompson [Poem, p. 16]
Evening on Tahoe — Rolfe Humphries [Poem, p. 17]
A Sad Little Lyric for Vacation — Rolfe Humphries [Poem, p. 17]
Sea Shells — Ellen Morrill Mills [Poem, p. 18]
Bits of Sand — Frances Wetmore Gross [Poem, p. 18]
On the Dunes — Anna Porter [Poem, p. 19]
Voices — Dorothy Pinckney Pillsbury [Poem, p. 19]
The Soul’s Summer — Robert Whitaker [Poem, p. 20]
Adagio — Mynhart J. Boissevain [Poem, p. 20]
The Stairway — Grace Clementine Howes [Poem, p. 21]
Pipes o’ Sky — Neal Gallatin [Poem, p. 22]
Surely I May Come Back — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 22]
Through the Cajon Pass — M. P. C [Poem, p. 23]
The Heavens Declare His Glory — Mabel Guinan Orr [Poem, p. 24]
Summer Movement — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 24]
The Riding of Peaceful Henry — Grace Atherton Dennen [Poem, p. 25]
Eyes — William Stanley Braithwaite [Poem, p. 28]
The Hanging House — William Stanley Braithwaite [Poem, p. 28]
Lilac-Time — Wright Field [Poem, p. 29]
The Maple Sings — Wright Field [Poem, p. 29]
Wistaria — Dorothy Haddox [Poem, p. 29]
The Yucca — M. Doris Hutchins [Poem, p. 30]
Gardens — Carrie Woodward Stryker [Poem, p. 31]

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