Trace, No. 65 (Summer 1967) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

An Overview: The Spanish American Little Magazine Scene by Hugh Fox gives Trace no. 65 its clearest point of entry, while Pensées Art Pop by Gil Orlovitz and Towards Print by James Boyer May widen the issue’s field. Dated Summer 1967, this substantial number indexes 20 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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Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 65
Issue date: Summer 1967
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 174 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 141 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-65-1967

Full contents

An Overview: The Spanish American Little Magazine Scene — Hugh Fox [Contribution, p. 6]
Pensées Art Pop — Gil Orlovitz [Contribution, p. 16]
Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 20]
Editors (and Others) Write [Correspondence, p. 30]
An Affluent Society Fable — Sam Bradley [Correspondence, p. 30]
You Don’t Have to Use Those Four-Letter Words — Willis Frost [Contribution, p. 32]
Crusade Sunday — Jean Rosenbaum [Poem, p. 33]
The Existentialist Ordeal of Michael Fraenkel — Will Slotnikoff [Essay, p. 34]
The Creative Window [Contribution, p. 48]
The Los Angeles Incognoscenti [Contribution, p. 65]
The Los Angeles Incognoscenti [Contribution, p. 75]
Martin Steingesser [Contribution, p. 84]
An Atrocity — R. D. Skillings [Fiction, p. 85]
The City: A Fable — Stanley E. Aspittle, Jr. [Contribution, p. 96]
The Flight of the Red Calliope — W. D. Perry [Contribution, p. 100]
Offshoots from New Grafts [Contribution, p. 111]
Root, Stem and Blossom — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 114]
Poetry in the Theatre — IV — William Packard [Contribution, p. 122]
Who Is Le Roi Jones? What Is He? — John Tryford [Essay, p. 132]
The Closet — Helen Luster [Poem, p. 140]

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Trace, no. 65 (Summer 1967). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.