Journal Issue
In Giovanni Malatesta, Miriam Allen de Ford brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “Because my foot drags from me when I walk”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Apple Tree and Eden Was a Prison 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 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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- Apple Tree — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 227]
- Eden Was a Prison — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 229]
- For All Brothers in Youth — George H. Dillon [Poem, p. 230]
- The Critic — Mavis Clare Barnett [Poem, p. 231]
- The Oldest Book — George Sterling [Poem, p. 232]
- Names — Joan Dareth Prosper [Poem, p. 234]
- Poplars — Velma Byers Hutchinson [Poem, p. 235]
- Giovanni Malatesta — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem, p. 236]
- Insomnia — Helen Emma Maring [Poem, p. 239]
- Epigrams — Frank Mitvalsky [Poem, p. 240]
- Evening Slippers — Winifred Davidson [Poem, p. 241]
- In the Studio — Lawrence Foss Woolley [Poem, p. 242]
- I Would Forget — Elizabeth D. Preston [Poem, p. 245]
- The Cage — John Richard Moreland [Poem, p. 246]
- Springs of Life — Richard Warner Borst [Poem, p. 247]
- Foam — Alice Fay [Poem, p. 248]
- And the Dreamers of Dreams — John Oscar Beck [Poem, p. 249]
- Heritage — Borghild Lundberg Lee [Poem, p. 250]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 8, May 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.