Journal Issue
John Atkins’s 3-poem run, from The Flags are Out to The Dry Soul, 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, Sidewalk Flower Vender and The Quiet Hour widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
Contributors
- Gertrude May Lutz
- John Atkins
- Margaret Crosland
- Desmond Stewart
- Joseph Joel Keith
- Gil Stanley
- Dale Hart
- Richard Wirtz Emerson
More contributors (1)
Publication details
Full contents
- Sidewalk Flower Vender — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 5]
- The Flags are Out — John Atkins [Poem, p. 6]
- Policy — John Atkins [Poem, p. 7]
- The Dry Soul — John Atkins [Poem, p. 8]
- Broken City — Margaret Crosland [Poem, p. 9]
- To Morning — Desmond Stewart [Poem, p. 10]
- The Tidal Shout — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 12]
- Convolution — Gil Stanley [Poem, p. 13]
- A Volcano Looks at War — Dale Hart [Poem, p. 14]
- At the Traffic Signal — Dale Hart [Poem, p. 15]
- My Sacred Mountain — Richard Wirtz Emerson [Poem, p. 16]
- Dark Thunder — Richard Wirtz Emerson [Poem, p. 17]
- Hungry was the Darkness — Eleeza Hadian [Poem, p. 18]
- The Quiet Hour — Eleeza Hadian [Poem, p. 19]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1949 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1949 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. IV, no. 1, Winter 1949. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.