Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Richard Shelley’s A Warrior Returns Home. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “But I do not knock”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Mother Autumn and Kind David Lay Dying 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.
Contributors
- Mary Carolyn Davies
- Mary J. Elmendorf
- Harriet Caie
- Beulah May
- Maud E. Uschold
- J. Corson Miller
- Whitley Gray
- M. Kraft
More contributors (20)
- John Russell McCarthy
- Eugene Surmelian
- Helen Rhoda Hoopes
- William van Wyck
- Samuel M. Sargent
- Jo Hartman
- Lucia Trent
- Mazie V. Caruthers
- Ethel Crum
- Porter Myron Chaffee
- Daisy E. B. Parrent
- Katharine Allison MacLean
- Harold Wesley Melvin
- Richard Shelley
- Lillah A. Ashley
- Isaac Benjamin
- Rachel Marshall Terrell
- Alberta Bancroft
- Amy Houck
- Henry Ramsay
Publication details
Full contents
- Mother Autumn — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 1]
- Kind David Lay Dying — Mary J. Elmendorf [Poem, p. 2]
- Treasure — Harriet Caie [Poem, p. 4]
- A Dance by Ruth St. Denis — Beulah May [Poem, p. 5]
- Lacquer Twilight — Maud E. Uschold [Poem, p. 5]
- Wild Honey — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 6]
- Safarai — Whitley Gray [Poem, p. 6]
- The Mole — M. Kraft [Poem, p. 7]
- Conversation — John Russell McCarthy [Poem, p. 8]
- Wheat Fields in Kansas — Eugene Surmelian [Poem, p. 9]
- Milton’s Daughters — Helen Rhoda Hoopes [Poem, p. 10]
- Zola — William van Wyck [Poem, p. 11]
- Glimpses — Samuel M. Sargent [Poem, p. 12]
- A Fisher Phaon — Jo Hartman [Poem, p. 13]
- Man to Woman — Lucia Trent [Poem, p. 13]
- Marching Rocks — Mazie V. Caruthers [Poem, p. 14]
- Yosemite — Ethel Crum [Poem, p. 14]
- Death Thoughts of a Pantheist — Porter Myron Chaffee [Poem, p. 15]
- Autumn — Daisy E. B. Parrent [Poem, p. 15]
- Lilith Laments — Katharine Allison MacLean [Poem, p. 16]
- To a Weaver of Words — Harold Wesley Melvin [Poem, p. 17]
- A Warrior Returns Home — Richard Shelley [Poem, p. 18]
- Chopin — Lillah A. Ashley [Poem, p. 19]
- Old Violin — Isaac Benjamin [Poem, p. 19]
- Three Trees — Rachel Marshall Terrell [Poem, p. 20]
- Prayer — Alberta Bancroft [Poem, p. 21]
- Silver Sewing — Amy Houck [Poem, p. 22]
- Sin — Henry Ramsay [Poem, p. 22]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 7, no. 1, October 1927. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.