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Trace, No. 67 (1968)

Journal Issue

When Time Was Born by James T. Farrell gives Trace no. 67 its clearest point of entry, while The Smith by H. L. Van Brunt and From the Smith and Horizon Press by H. L. Van Brunt widen the issue’s field. Dated 1968, this expansive number indexes 61 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
67
Issue date
1968
Editor
James Boyer May
Publisher
Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication
London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language
English
Pagination
Original scan: 192 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 203 PDF pages.
Record ID
ttj-trace-67-1968
Full contents
  • When Time Was Born — James T. Farrell [Contribution, p. 6]
  • The Smith — H. L. Van Brunt [Contribution, p. 7]
  • From the Smith and Horizon Press — H. L. Van Brunt [Contribution, p. 8]
  • Uncertainties — H. L. Van Brunt [Contribution, p. 8]
  • The Smith/8 — Gene Fowler [Contribution, p. 9]
  • The Strongest Magazine [Contribution, p. 9]
  • SPECIAL OFFER — CLOTH EDITION OF UNCERTAINTIES, AND THE SMITH/8 BOTH FOR $6.00 ORDER FR( THE SMITH [Contribution, p. 15]
  • PARK ROW, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10038 — Gene Fowler [Contribution, p. 9]
  • The Poet and the 20th Century — Gene Fowler [Essay, p. 10]
  • Some Notes on Hiroshima Mon Amour — Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 14]
  • Towards Print (the Word & the Poem) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 25]
  • Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 29]
  • The Poet & the Community — Eric Ratcliffe [Correspondence, p. 29]
  • A Medium for ‘This Shaking Shadowy World’ — Gene Fowler [Correspondence, p. 32]
  • Sur-rebuttal on Latin American Mags — Hugh Fox [Correspondence, p. 33]
  • Love and Death — Jack Lindeman [Contribution, p. 34]
  • Paper Boats or the Hydra-headed Woe — Mary Graham Lund [Essay, p. 42]
  • The Pebble-heap — a fable — Keki N. Daruwalla [Contribution, p. 51]
  • Keki N. Daruwalla [Contribution, p. 53]
  • Keki N. Daruwalla [Contribution, p. 55]
  • Glossary [Contribution, p. 57]
  • Paragraphs — Arvind Mehrotra [Contribution, p. 58]
  • View from the Field — Bruce Bennett Brown [Poem, p. 67]
  • Letter : a Detachment — Lillie D. Chaffin [Poem, p. 89]
  • Songs Taught, Songs Untaught — Seamus Finn [Contribution, p. 90]
  • The Songs [Contribution, p. 90]
  • Letter from the Unmagic Street — J. Chester Johnson [Contribution, p. 93]
  • The Pink Girl — Florence Lewis [Fiction, p. 99]
  • Florence Lewis [Contribution, p. 101]
  • Florence Lewis [Contribution, p. 102]
  • The Teachers’ Party — Jerry A. Bitts [Fiction, p. 104]
  • ‘You better come get your husband!’ — Jerry A. Bitts [Contribution, p. 105]
  • The Teachers’ Party (the Play) [Contribution, p. 106]
  • Jerry A. Bitts [Contribution, p. 107]
  • Jerry A. Bitts [Contribution, p. 110]
  • The Letter Carrier — Norbert Blei [Fiction, p. 114]
  • Norbert Blei [Contribution, p. 116]
  • Norbert Blei [Contribution, p. 119]
  • Norbert Blei [Contribution, p. 125]
  • A Box of Three — Don N. Smith [Fiction, p. 128]
  • The Evening — Mary Nordseth [Contribution, p. 134]
  • Mary Nordseth [Contribution, p. 138]
  • Spiropanosome: a bacteriological tragedy — Albert E. Perks [Poem, p. 141]
  • Scene 3: the Same — Albert E. Perks [Contribution, p. 146]
  • Scene 4: the Laboratory [Contribution, p. 149]
  • The ‘old’ Days — Louise Louis [Contribution, p. 151]
  • Underground — Louise Louis [Contribution, p. 152]
  • Unidentified Craft — Stella Worley [Contribution, p. 153]
  • Eclogue Forty Eight — Pritish Nandy [Poem, p. 159]
  • Icon Twenty Four — Pritish Nandy [Poem, p. 160]
  • The Need to Write — Michael Gregory [Essay, p. 161]
  • Story — Michael Miller [Poem, p. 164]
  • The Failure (part Ii) — John Tryford [Essay, p. 165]
  • (sequel to essay in Trace 58) — John Tryford [Essay, p. 165]
  • Epitaph [Contribution, p. 169]
  • Milkbottle H & Gil Orlovitz — Milton VanSickle [Essay, p. 170]
  • William Packard: Poetry in the Theatre—vi [Contribution, p. 173]
  • Rome Boat Thing on Its End [Contribution, p. 180]
  • The Chronicle [Reference, p. 200]
  • Art of India [Contribution, p. 201]
  • Film Stills [Contribution, p. 202]
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Trace, no. 67 (1968). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.