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Trace, No. 70 (1969)

Journal Issue

Inward/outward gives Trace no. 70 its clearest point of entry, while (Some Gladly Frustrated Thoughts On The Making of Poetry) and Freud, on Crop Supports, Etc by Ruth Moon Kemphe widen the issue’s field. Dated 1969, this expansive number indexes 48 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.

Contributors

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Publication details
Journal
Trace
Volume
Not recorded
Issue number
70
Issue date
1969
Editor
James Boyer May
Publisher
Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication
London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language
English
Pagination
Original scan: 232 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 213 PDF pages.
Record ID
ttj-trace-70-1969
Full contents
  • Inward/outward [Contribution, p. 7]
  • (Some Gladly Frustrated Thoughts On The Making of Poetry) [Contribution, p. 7]
  • Freud, on Crop Supports, Etc — Ruth Moon Kemphe [Contribution, p. 13]
  • Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 14]
  • Good Art First, Political Art Second — Rush Rankin [Correspondence, p. 14]
  • ‘Failure of Integrity’ — Not Limited to One Mag — Seamus Finn [Correspondence, p. 15]
  • A Letter from the artist, Paul Freeman, to Tom Mcnamara — Paul Freeman [Contribution, p. 19]
  • Cold Night — Hugh Fox [Contribution, p. 22]
  • The Goddess of the New Sensibility: Susan Sontag — Hugh Fox [Essay, p. 23]
  • The Benefactor [Contribution, p. 27]
  • Portrait of a Pugnacious Playwright — François Pasqualini [Contribution, p. 34]
  • These Eyes — Jed Linde [Contribution, p. 39]
  • Dada as Psychodrama — John Tryford [Essay, p. 40]
  • My Grandmother Comes from Prague — John Tryford [Contribution, p. 40]
  • Hem-lines in Oscillation — Iris B. Buaken [Essay, p. 44]
  • Today’s Machete — James D. Houston [Contribution, p. 51]
  • The Vicar’s Birthday — Sanford M. Dorbin [Poem, p. 54]
  • Lay Sermon: Capsule One — Sanford M. Dorbin [Contribution, p. 55]
  • Lay Sermon: Capsule Two — Sanford M. Dorbin [Contribution, p. 56]
  • Lay Sermon: Capsule Three [Contribution, p. 57]
  • Lay Sermon: Capsule Four [Contribution, p. 58]
  • Lay Sermon: Capsule Five — Sanford M. Dorbin [Contribution, p. 59]
  • Serenade for a Cubed Eyeball — Stanley Cooperman [Poem, p. 62]
  • God’s Tongue — Konstantinos Lardas [Contribution, p. 80]
  • Selections from Austérics — Konstantinos Lardas [Contribution, p. 82]
  • Several Directions — Millie Mae Wicklund [Poem, p. 98]
  • Disappearing Cross — Stan Gwaine Adler [Contribution, p. 103]
  • (Two selections from an unpublished novel) [Contribution, p. 104]
  • II [Contribution, p. 107]
  • Judas Kiss at Dawn — Maida Adamich [Fiction, p. 111]
  • Before the Funeral — R. D. Skillings [Fiction, p. 116]
  • R. D. Skillings [Contribution, p. 128]
  • Liborio — Seymour Gresser [Fiction, p. 130]
  • Seymour Gresser [Contribution, p. 136]
  • Seymour Gresser [Contribution, p. 142]
  • The Paris Tour of Mr. Chester Poor Iii — Richard O’Connell [Contribution, p. 145]
  • Items — Ruth Moon Kempfer [Contribution, p. 148]
  • Concerning the Now of Poetry* — Dave Rasey [Contribution, p. 151]
  • David Henderson’s poem, Psychedelic Firemen [Poem, p. 159]
  • Yonder Up Called Is Rolls The When — Francis Murray [Contribution, p. 162]
  • ‘book Review’—by James Brooks [Review, p. 171]
  • A Nugacious Proposal* — John Marble [Fiction, p. 173]
  • The Great Automated Culture Crisis — N. H. Taylor [Fiction, p. 185]
  • Instant Everything Art [Contribution, p. 187]
  • AT THE END — Ryah Tumarkin Goodman [Poem, p. 191]
  • Nisei Actress — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 192]
  • Ghelderode’s Pantagleize: ‘... lost in equalitarian darkness.’ — Barry N. Schwartz [Contribution, p. 201]
  • Titlewave Amalgamate [Contribution, p. 207]
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Trace, no. 70 (1969). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.