Journal Issue
Chrysanthemums by Lucy Hale Sturges marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem uses rhetorical punctuation to disturb an otherwise measured line around “The candles flicker in a silver sconce”; exclamation and question become rhythmic events, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Wilson O. Clough’s To One Grown Blasé answers it from another angle: it compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Ça vous amuse, la vie? you blandly ask”; 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 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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- Chanson — Joan Dareth Prosper [Poem, p. 291]
- Nocturne — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 292]
- Two Songs — Dorothy McVickar [Poem, p. 293]
- The Gleaner — Ernest G. Moll [Poem, p. 294]
- The Death of a Sun — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 295]
- The Bondage-Breaker — Doris L. Bradley [Poem, p. 296]
- Anesthetic — Isabel Fiske Conant [Poem, p. 298]
- Chrysanthemums — Lucy Hale Sturges [Poem, p. 299]
- Penalty — George H. Dillon [Poem, p. 300]
- Dream Woman — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 301]
- To a Grove of Silver Birches — Lew Sarett [Poem, p. 302]
- Comments on Life — Paul Eldridge [Poem, p. 303]
- Crusader — Ted Olson [Poem, p. 304]
- The New Woman’s Last Note — Tonio [Poem, p. 305]
- Summer Storm in Los Angeles — Ethelean Tyson Gaw [Poem, p. 306]
- Fear — Jennette Edwards [Poem, p. 308]
- To One Grown Blasé — Wilson O. Clough [Poem, p. 309]
- The Journey’s End — Lenore C. Schutze [Poem, p. 310]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 10, September 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.