Trace, No. 40 (Jan–Mar 1961) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

Carillon gives Trace no. 40 its clearest point of entry, while The Weft of Experience in F. Scott Fitzgerald by R. E. Bachelor and Towards Print by Curtis Zahn widen the issue’s field. Dated Jan–Mar 1961, this substantial number indexes 27 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.

Contributors

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Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 40
Issue date: Jan–Mar 1961
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 70 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 94 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-40-1961

Full contents

Carillon [Contribution, p. 5]
The Weft of Experience in F. Scott Fitzgerald — R. E. Bachelor [Contribution, p. 7]
Towards Print — Curtis Zahn [Essay, p. 12]
(Anti-social Protest Literature) — Curtis Zahn [Contribution, p. 12]
The Chronicle [Reference, p. 19]
Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 26]
Could We Have Another Inferno, Please? [Contribution, p. 38]
Henry Miller [Contribution, p. 43]
(An individualist as Social Thinker) — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 43]
Sons of Adam — Clae Waltham [Contribution, p. 53]
from Pledge of Symphony — James Franklin Lewis [Contribution, p. 56]
Transition to Opus One — James Franklin Lewis [Contribution, p. 56]
Last Conversation with Fraenkel — Walter Lowenfels [Contribution, p. 60]
Prelude — Walter Lowenfels [Contribution, p. 60]
Last Conversation [Contribution, p. 61]
Fraenkel Speaks — Michael Fraenkel [Contribution, p. 65]
Art of the Sonnet — Gil Orlovitz [Poem, p. 69]
The Poem Is a True & Rooted Cactus — John Thomas [Poem, p. 70]
Charles B. Tinkham: the Poet as Crusader [Contribution, p. 71]
Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 74]
Several Guest Reviews — R. E. Bachelor [Review, p. 81]
Two Books of Fiction — R. E. Bachelor [Contribution, p. 81]
Photography — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Artwork, p. 85]
And More Poetry [Contribution, p. 87]
Mu as I Remember It — Robert Vaughan [Contribution, p. 90]
(An Essay on the Recent History of Immorality) — Robert Vaughan [Essay, p. 90]
Greetings — Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 93]

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Trace, no. 40 (Jan–Mar 1961). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.