Journal Issue
The New Music of the Spheres by Mary Graham Lund gives Trace no. 50 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by James Boyer May and Clearing the Ground widen the issue’s field. Dated Autumn 1963, this substantial number indexes 39 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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- The New Music of the Spheres — Mary Graham Lund [Essay, p. 5]
- Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 12]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 17]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 19]
- Clearing the Ground [Contribution, p. 20]
- Symposium on the Next Civilization * [Contribution, p. 20]
- Anent Dubiety of the ‘Ivy’ Label — Hans Juergensen [Contribution, p. 22]
- A Somewhat Different View — Hans Juergensen [Contribution, p. 24]
- More in re Ivy Compton-Burnett — Elizabeth I. Louch [Correspondence, p. 25]
- Another Southerner’s View — Ned Heite [Correspondence, p. 27]
- Montage of the Poetic Rage Menteuse [Contribution, p. 28]
- Scylla — Robert Bassil [Contribution, p. 29]
- An Appeal for Information — Anthony Linick [Correspondence, p. 30]
- IN THE SKY — Anthony Linick [Contribution, p. 31]
- The Diary of Sesso-vesucci* — John Baker [Fiction, p. 48]
- September 7 [Contribution, p. 48]
- September 10 [Contribution, p. 48]
- September 11 [Contribution, p. 48]
- September 13 [Contribution, p. 49]
- September 14 — John Baker [Contribution, p. 50]
- September 15 [Contribution, p. 51]
- September 17 [Contribution, p. 52]
- September 18 [Contribution, p. 53]
- September 19 [Contribution, p. 54]
- September 20 — H. Rousseau [Contribution, p. 55]
- September 21 — John Baker [Contribution, p. 56]
- September 22 [Contribution, p. 58]
- September 23 [Contribution, p. 59]
- September 24 — John Baker [Contribution, p. 60]
- September 28 [Contribution, p. 61]
- October 1 [Contribution, p. 61]
- The Streamlined Norm — Dorothy Ellin Flax [Poem, p. 66]
- Falstaff Poems — John Tagliabue [Poem, p. 68]
- Four Half-haiku — Lawrence Barth [Poem, p. 74]
- A Gadangus Full of Dirt — Darryl Ponicsan [Fiction, p. 75]
- A Motion Picture Director’s Dream — Robert Lowry [Poem, p. 84]
- The Image* — David Cornberg [Contribution, p. 85]
- Theokritos Unbound — Milton VanSickle [Review, p. 89]
- An Epic with Meaning for Now — Margaret Randall [Review, p. 94]
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Trace, no. 50 (Autumn 1963). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.