Trace, No. 43 (Autumn 1961) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

Thoreau’s Walden Ms gives Trace no. 43 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by Curtis Zahn and (. . . Guilt by Association) by Curtis Zahn widen the issue’s field. Dated Autumn 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: 43
Issue date: Autumn 1961
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 104 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 112 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-43-1961

Full contents

Thoreau’s Walden Ms [Contribution, p. 5]
Towards Print — Curtis Zahn [Essay, p. 13]
(. . . Guilt by Association) — Curtis Zahn [Contribution, p. 13]
Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 15]
The Plight of the Hasty Theorizer [Contribution, p. 17]
Little Magazines for Classrooms? — John William Corrington [Contribution, p. 23]
Poetry, Settled and Unsettled [Contribution, p. 24]
What Poetry Means [Contribution, p. 29]
Babes and Sucklings — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Contribution, p. 35]
The Cult of Youth in American Writing — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Contribution, p. 36]
From the Modern Scene (no. 2) [Contribution, p. 43]
The Pink Pill [Contribution, p. 44]
The Rise of Babelomania — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 45]
Literature, and the Sciences [Contribution, p. 49]
The Rope Trick — Frederick Preis [Contribution, p. 50]
A Mutation of Angels — Joanne de Longchamps [Contribution, p. 61]
Fragments from the Homogenized Moment: a Truth — Curtis Zahn [Contribution, p. 65]
Some Concluding Philosophical Slants [Contribution, p. 86]
Summer-circuit [Contribution, p. 88]
Selected from Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 91]
Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 92]
Veracity/ies and the Verities [Contribution, p. 92]
A Fly on Flypaper — Leslie Woof Hedley [Contribution, p. 95]
Concerning some Other Essences [Contribution, p. 97]
Approximations of Clarity — Robert Sward [Contribution, p. 102]
The Play’s Not the Scene [Contribution, p. 107]
Selected from Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 111]

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Trace, no. 43 (Autumn 1961). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.