The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 12 (April 1924)

Journal Issue

Modernism enters this number through Wind Prints of a Dancer by Charmian von Wiegand. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “In some far midnight”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Hildegarde Flanner’s Sonnet answers it from another angle: it keeps the pressure of a fourteen-line argument around “The flowers of Apollo that will heal”; contemporary diction works inside the inherited sonnet frame. The explicit form named in Sonnet makes the issue’s negotiation visible: modern subject and diction are being worked through inherited measure, not simply set against it. 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: 3
Issue number: 12
Issue date: April 1924
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: 69 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-lyric-west-vol-3-no-12

Full contents

The Minor Poets — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 3]
Four Songs for Two Young Lovers — Winifred Davidson [Poem, p. 4]
A Blackbird Calling — Harry Noyes Pratt [Poem, p. 5]
Remembered Things — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem, p. 5]
Amaryllis — Ralph Parker Bishop [Poem, p. 6]
The End — Medora C. Addison [Poem, p. 6]
After — Medora C. Addison [Poem, p. 6]
The Ravelling Tune — Hazel Hall [Poem, p. 6]
Eternal Remembrance — Herschelle Bek [Poem, p. 7]
Colorado Easter — Belle Turnbull [Poem, p. 8]
Back to the Hills — Lucia Clark Markham [Poem, p. 8]
On Going to Town — Winifred M. Heath [Poem, p. 9]
Discovery — Ruth Aughiltree [Poem, p. 9]
The Beggar — Ellen Coit Elliott [Poem, p. 10]
Choice — Elizabeth Colter [Poem, p. 11]
The Night Is Kind — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 12]
Finite — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 12]
Circle — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 12]
To Charles Warren Stoddard — George Sterling [Poem, p. 13]
Whence Cometh My Help — Rolfe Humphries [Poem, p. 14]
A Gift — Gertrude Callaghan [Poem, p. 14]
A Pagan’s Rosary — Edith D. Osborne [Poem, p. 15]
Wind Prints of a Dancer — Charmian von Wiegand [Poem, p. 16]
The Harpist — William Ellwell Onions [Poem, p. 17]
There’s a Sound of Singing — Saidee Gerard Ruthrauff [Poem, p. 17]
An Old Man of the Trails — Grace Clementine Howes [Poem, p. 18]
The Siren — Harriette G. Smith [Poem, p. 19]
Moment — Loretta Roche [Poem, p. 19]
The Sweet Smell of Lumber — Harvey D. Cheney [Poem, p. 19]
On Windy Nights — Mildred Plew Merryman [Poem, p. 20]
I Die a Hundred Deaths — Ethel Marjorie Knapp [Poem, p. 20]
Sea-Thought — Wheaton Hale Brewer [Poem, p. 21]
Homecoming — Leslie-Leigh du Cros [Poem, p. 22]
Like Three Gold Temples — Grace Wallace [Poem, p. 22]
Mountains Are Best for Heartbreak — A. Evelyn Newman [Poem, p. 23]
Transformation — Howard McKinley Corning [Poem, p. 23]
To the Soul of a Dancer — M. Doris Hutchins [Poem, p. 24]
The Nun — Mary Louise Rankin [Poem, p. 24]
The Alien — Marion Ethel Hamilton [Poem, p. 25]
The Flight — George Sterling [Poem, p. 25]
Song of the Long River — Constance Lindsay Skinner [Poem, p. 27]
Hill Sunset — Margaret Widdemer [Poem, p. 28]
Camp Fires — Dorothy Pinckney Pillsbury [Poem, p. 28]
The Wind — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 29]
Sonnet — Hildegarde Flanner [Poem, p. 30]

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