Journal Issue
Marcia Masters Jennings’s 3-poem run, from Little Biography to Spring Ride and Wood Song, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 14 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. Around that sequence, Never the Songs and Portent With Wings widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
Contributors
- Dorothy Hobson
- John Gould Fletcher
- Elinor Lennen
- M. A. Mays
- Frances Montague
- Joseph Joel Keith
- Clifford M. Gordon
- Marcia Nichols Holden
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Never the Songs — Dorothy Hobson [Poem, p. 5]
- Pacific Beach — John Gould Fletcher [Poem, p. 6]
- O Arrogant — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 8]
- Iteration — M. A. Mays [Poem, p. 9]
- Scavenger — Frances Montague [Poem, p. 10]
- City Birds — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 11]
- Wind: New Orleans — Clifford M. Gordon [Poem, p. 12]
- Evergreens in Winter — Clifford M. Gordon [Poem, p. 13]
- Sleigh Ride — Marcia Nichols Holden [Poem, p. 14]
- Little Biography — Marcia Masters Jennings [Poem, p. 15]
- Precarious Ground — Marcia Masters Jennings [Poem, p. 16]
- Spring Ride and Wood Song — Marcia Masters Jennings [Poem, p. 17]
- Mountain Child — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 18]
- Portent With Wings — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 19]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1947 by Grover I. Jacoby, Jr.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1947 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. II, no. 2, Spring 1947. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.