Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Cornelia Meade Scarborough’s The Desert Passes. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “Waste of tortured earth”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing Western landscape without the usual pastoral polish into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Chant of Autumn and Weather Report 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.
Contributors
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Marie Emilie Gilchrist
- Clare Shipman
- Caroline Ainslie
- Glenn Ward Dresbach
- Faith Maris
- Lucy Hale Sturges
- Idella Purnell
More contributors (18)
- Cornelia Meade Scarborough
- Edith Osborne
- Margaret Adelaide Wilson
- Anna Rozilla Crever
- Torrey Connor
- Isaac Jenkinson Frazee
- Claribel Weeks Avery
- Lowell C. Chamberlain
- Winifred Gray Stewart
- Neal Gallatin
- Virgil Geddes
- Evelyn M. Watson
- Virginia Skelton
- Philip Gray
- Helen Schlesinger
- Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Wheaton Hale Brewer
- Whitelaw Saunders
Publication details
Full contents
- Chant of Autumn — Clark Ashton Smith [Poem, p. 3]
- Weather Report — Marie Emilie Gilchrist [Poem, p. 4]
- Meadow Lark — Clare Shipman [Poem, p. 4]
- Reproof — Caroline Ainslie [Poem, p. 4]
- The Painted Desert — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 5]
- Sand Lily — Faith Maris [Poem, p. 9]
- The Desert — Lucy Hale Sturges [Poem, p. 9]
- Imperial Valley — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 10]
- The Desert Passes — Cornelia Meade Scarborough [Poem, p. 11]
- Desert Sage — Edith Osborne [Poem, p. 12]
- The Quail’s Grace — Margaret Adelaide Wilson [Poem, p. 13]
- The Century Plant — Anna Rozilla Crever [Poem, p. 13]
- Poinsettias — Torrey Connor [Poem, p. 13]
- Desert Suite — Isaac Jenkinson Frazee [Poem, p. 14]
- The Painter — Claribel Weeks Avery [Poem, p. 15]
- Lines to Mount Rainier — Lowell C. Chamberlain [Poem, p. 16]
- Sky Wind — Winifred Gray Stewart [Poem, p. 17]
- Tumble-Weed Ladies — Neal Gallatin [Poem, p. 17]
- Prairie Fires — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 18]
- The Canyon Cascade — Evelyn M. Watson [Poem, p. 19]
- Out Yonder — Virginia Skelton [Poem, p. 20]
- Victory — Philip Gray [Poem, p. 21]
- Blue Moths in Yosemite — Helen Schlesinger [Poem, p. 22]
- The Ravens — Elizabeth Coatsworth [Poem, p. 22]
- Red Embers — Wheaton Hale Brewer [Poem, p. 23]
- Equinox — Wheaton Hale Brewer [Poem, p. 23]
- Theme for a Ballet — Whitelaw Saunders [Poem, p. 24]
- Vexed Love — Whitelaw Saunders [Poem, p. 24]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 2, no. 6, October 1922. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.