The Lyric West, Vol. 3, No. 6 (October 1923)

Journal Issue

A Pastel by Leonora F. Curtin marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “The leaves of a Tulip-tree”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Weare Holbrook’s The Belle of the Ball answers it from another angle: it organizes description through sentence-length lines around “She was the last to leave”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace. The presence of a named form such as Three Sonnets makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. 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: 6
Issue date: October 1923
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: 64 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-lyric-west-vol-3-no-6

Full contents

Three Sonnets — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 3]
You Shall See the Wind — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 4]
Seasons — Vivienne Thew [Poem, p. 5]
Camp Fires — Dorothy Pinckney Pillsbury [Poem, p. 6]
Autumn Portrait — Gustav Davidson [Poem, p. 7]
The Desert — Ethelean Tyson Gaw [Poem, p. 8]
Masquerade — Ethel Hope [Poem, p. 8]
Sand — Jessica Nelson North [Poem, p. 9]
Loss — Elliott C. Lincoln [Poem, p. 11]
In Fabre’s Garden — Raine Bennett [Poem, p. 12]
The Usurer — Charles Winship [Poem, p. 13]
The Wind — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 14]
Allegro — Ruth Harwood [Poem, p. 14]
Pain — Virginia Taylor McCormick [Poem, p. 15]
The Early Morning Crowd — Ruth Corley Hoskins [Poem, p. 15]
A Prayer for Crippled Men — Virginia Lyne Tunstall [Poem, p. 16]
She Wants Such Simple Gifts — Henry Fitzgerald Ruthrauff [Poem, p. 16]
The Enigma — Sydney King Russell [Poem, p. 17]
Mists — Sydney King Russell [Poem, p. 17]
Disseverance — Julia Cooley Altrocchi [Poem, p. 18]
Wan Water — Saidee Gerard Ruthrauff [Poem, p. 18]
A Pastel — Leonora F. Curtin [Poem, p. 19]
The First Visit — Leonora F. Curtin [Poem, p. 19]
Prelude — Helene Mullins [Poem, p. 19]
Before the Great Adventure — Robert Haven Schauffler [Poem, p. 20]
Music in Hospital — Robert Haven Schauffler [Poem, p. 20]
Circumstance — Ruth H. Willian [Poem, p. 21]
To an Old Lover — Ruth H. Willian [Poem, p. 21]
Kin — Ruth H. Willian [Poem, p. 21]
The Belle of the Ball — Weare Holbrook [Poem, p. 22]
Nocturne — E. MacAlister Hepburn [Poem, p. 22]
Two Paths — Penelope Russ [Poem, p. 23]
To a High-Born Lady — Wright Field [Poem, p. 24]
Mountain Hunger — Pierre Loving [Poem, p. 24]
Sanctuary — G. G. Bostwick [Poem, p. 25]
Defiance — Paul Eldridge [Poem, p. 25]
You — Paul Eldridge [Poem, p. 25]
Wyoming Sunset — Cecelia Hennel Hendricks [Poem, p. 26]
To a Kimono — Dorothy Haddox [Poem, p. 27]
His Will — Georgina S. Townsend [Poem, p. 27]
Scars — Almira Richardson Wilcox [Poem, p. 28]
“Lacquered Mandarin Moments” — Vera Frances Morse [Poem, p. 28]

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