Journal Issue
Marcia Masters’s 3-poem run, from Little Town to Lilac, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 13 poems are compact, but their free-verse lines vary the pace through clipped statements, longer syntactic runs, and small sequences that let one voice change pressure across several pages. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. The closing Prosody for Free Verse shifts the number from practice to criticism, making its stylistic choices explicit without flattening the contrasts among the poems.
Contributors
- Edith E. Hewins
- Harold Vinal
- Estelle Chase Samuelson
- Marcia Masters
- Joseph Joel Keith
- Orian DePledge
- Frona Lane
- Ethel Romig Fuller
More contributors (4)
Publication details
Full contents
- Across the Moon — Edith E. Hewins [Poem, p. 5]
- Sea Journey — Harold Vinal [Poem, p. 6]
- Vulnerable — Estelle Chase Samuelson [Poem, p. 7]
- Little Town — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 8]
- Train in the Mist — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 10]
- Lilac — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 12]
- Runaway Boy — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 13]
- Picasso — Orian DePledge [Poem, p. 14]
- Fruit of this Hour — Frona Lane [Poem, p. 15]
- Spring Comes to the Uplands — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem, p. 16]
- Unconquered Fragrance — E. MacDermott Johnston [Poem, p. 17]
- The After-Letter — Irene Bruce [Poem, p. 18]
- Tentacles — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 19]
- Prosody for Free Verse — Grover I. Jacoby, Jr [Essay, p. 20]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1946 by Grover I. Jacoby, Jr.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1946 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, no. 2, April 1946. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.