Journal Issue
A Date Palm Holds Dreams and The Refining Hour give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. 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 movement from A Date Palm Holds Dreams to The Refining Hour gives the number a specific arc while leaving its voices formally distinct.
Contributors
- Edith E. Hewins
- Ruth Pitter
- Marcia Masters
- Virginia Wilhelmson
- Margaret J. E. Brown
- Rose Rosberg
- Alice Fowler Whitfield
- Christopher Maclaine
More contributors (4)
Publication details
Full contents
- A Date Palm Holds Dreams — Edith E. Hewins [Poem, p. 5]
- Aged Man to Young Mother — Ruth Pitter [Poem, p. 6]
- The Transplanted Tree — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 8]
- Late Afternoon — Virginia Wilhelmson [Poem, p. 9]
- End of the Year — Margaret J. E. Brown [Poem, p. 10]
- City of Stone — Rose Rosberg [Poem, p. 11]
- Battery Sky Line — Alice Fowler Whitfield [Poem, p. 12]
- Arrested in Our Visions — Christopher Maclaine [Poem, p. 13]
- No Truce — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 14]
- Seer — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 15]
- Variations on Intuition — Muriel Spark [Poem, p. 16]
- Shared Destiny — Eleeza Hadian [Poem, p. 18]
- The Refining Hour — Grover Jacoby [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. 2, Spring 1949. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.