Journal Issue
In Poetry, Man Travels’ by John Gould Fletcher gives Trace no. 48 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print (now the Pudding) by James Boyer May and From October Letters of an Editor Expatriate by Margaret Randall de Mondragon widen the issue’s field. Dated Spring 1963, this substantial number indexes 37 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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- In Poetry, Man Travels’ — John Gould Fletcher [Essay, p. 6]
- Towards Print (now the Pudding) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 12]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 14]
- From October Letters of an Editor Expatriate — Margaret Randall de Mondragon [Contribution, p. 14]
- I Do Not Dig (dedicated to Trace, Summer 1962) — Ruth Bunker Christiansen [Contribution, p. 16]
- From Dreams to Image-Words — Helen Wolfe [Correspondence, p. 17]
- Return-visa to Eldorado — A. Fredric Franklyn [Correspondence, p. 18]
- Trace Could Do More — Robert Bassil [Correspondence, p. 19]
- A Case? — for ‘semi-fiction’ — David A. Munro [Essay, p. 21]
- Peter Devries: Calvinist Gone Underground — Abigail Ann Hamblen [Contribution, p. 26]
- A Correspondence * — California Grub City [Artwork, p. 32]
- The Utterly Quarterly — Kansas Dropsy [Contribution, p. 33]
- The Utterly Quarterly — Kansas Dropsy [Contribution, p. 34]
- Dear Do-Little [Contribution, p. 38]
- September 1, 195— — California City [Contribution, p. 40]
- 20th Century Erato — Dorothy Ellin Flax [Poem, p. 42]
- The Truth and the Poem — A. Fredric Franklyn [Poem, p. 43]
- (Pictures of William/Carlos Williams) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 43]
- In the Wunderhorn World: Mahler’s Fourth Symphony — James Schevill [Contribution, p. 47]
- Art of the Sonnet: 167 — Gil Orlovitz [Poem, p. 53]
- Right Turn: Left — James Boyer May [Poem, p. 58]
- Last Words of Whom? — James Boyer May [Poem, p. 60]
- (Dedicated to ——, and his ilk) — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 60]
- The Great Pyramid — Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 61]
- Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 63]
- Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 66]
- Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 70]
- Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 74]
- Vibraharping — M. D. Elevitch [Review, p. 76]
- (Non-Vehement) [Contribution, p. 76]
- Pitch [Contribution, p. 77]
- Amplification [Contribution, p. 80]
- Syncopation [Contribution, p. 81]
- Reprise [Contribution, p. 82]
- NOT in Passing — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 83]
- Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [Contribution, p. 96]
- Jascha Kessler (Continued from Page 60) [Contribution, p. 98]
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Trace, no. 48 (Spring 1963). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.