Journal Issue
Poetry of Circumstance gives Trace no. 44 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by Curtis Zahn and (Are Littlemags Our Final Voice?) by Curtis Zahn widen the issue’s field. Dated Winter 1962, this substantial number indexes 30 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.
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- Poetry of Circumstance [Contribution, p. 5]
- Towards Print — Curtis Zahn [Essay, p. 15]
- (Are Littlemags Our Final Voice?) — Curtis Zahn [Contribution, p. 15]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 19]
- There Is Only the School of Life [Contribution, p. 19]
- Poets’ ‘Union’ Proposed [Contribution, p. 24]
- In Response to Albert Perkins [Contribution, p. 26]
- A Talk to Jesus Christ [Contribution, p. 28]
- Into the Final Madness [Contribution, p. 31]
- Notes While Repairing a Novel [Contribution, p. 36]
- Two Poems — Stuart Z. Perkoff [Poem, p. 40]
- From: Seven Moral Tales — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Contribution, p. 45]
- Confuse*d Biography [Contribution, p. 47]
- Motion Pictures of the Past — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 50]
- A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 51]
- A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 53]
- A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 55]
- Feline — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 65]
- The Old Professor Offers Advice III — Graduate Student Friendships [Contribution, p. 65]
- Graduate Student Friendships — Advice III [Contribution, p. 65]
- Letter to a Young Poet [Contribution, p. 69]
- Two Premieres: Tombstone and Automobile Graveyard — James V. Baker [Contribution, p. 71]
- The Automobile Graveyard [Contribution, p. 74]
- A Telling Tale — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 78]
- Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 79]
- It WAS Great to be Alive [Contribution, p. 79]
- Foley Without Baedeker — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Contribution, p. 84]
- Fictional Tradition in ‘Untraditional’ 60’s [Contribution, p. 87]
- Fourfold Mountain-climb Is Rewarding — Marvin Bell [Contribution, p. 101]
- With Grave Aspect* [Contribution, p. 104]
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Trace, no. 44 (Winter 1962). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.