Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Ethel Romig Fuller’s Voices. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “And death and love”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Out of Purple Valleys and Francesca 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.
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- Out of Purple Valleys — Craig Rice [Poem, p. 31]
- Francesca — Gertrude Farwell [Poem, p. 32]
- Of a Certain Contemporaneous Poet — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 37]
- Trail’s End — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 37]
- Yeg Yhee — Josephine Mason Steen [Poem, p. 38]
- The Shadow River — Margaret Skavlan [Poem, p. 39]
- From the Water Comes the Fire — Laura Bell Everett [Poem, p. 40]
- Voices — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem, p. 41]
- Puppet Moon — Lucy Hale Sturges [Poem, p. 42]
- Drift — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 43]
- To Moselle — Orpha M. Gardner [Poem, p. 45]
- Prayer — Laura Margaret Haley [Poem, p. 45]
- The Over-Song — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 46]
- Maples — Thelma Phlegar [Poem, p. 47]
- Romany — Helen Pursell Roads [Poem, p. 48]
- From Oklahoma in Autumn — Elizabeth Ball [Poem, p. 50]
- Harvest Song — Noel Stearn [Poem, p. 50]
- After Harvest — Gladys Bovard Merryfield [Poem, p. 51]
- Each Star a Flower — Ethel Brodt Wilson [Poem, p. 51]
- Mermaid — Julia Clara Birk [Poem, p. 52]
- “When the Morning Stars Sang Together” — Homer G. Gane [Poem, p. 52]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 6, no. 2, November 1926. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.