Journal Issue
Mary Pearson’s 3-poem run, from For a Blind Man to Prelude to a Storm, 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, Painters and Old Man, Alone widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
Contributors
- Noel Gibbs
- Mary Pearson
- Orian De Pledge
- Scott Greer
- Joseph Joel Keith
- George Moor
- Neeta Marquis
- Jean Burden
More contributors (1)
Publication details
Full contents
- Painters — Noel Gibbs [Poem, p. 5]
- For a Blind Man — Mary Pearson [Poem, p. 6]
- The Flower — Mary Pearson [Poem, p. 8]
- Prelude to a Storm — Mary Pearson [Poem, p. 9]
- City Worker — Orian De Pledge [Poem, p. 9]
- For the Pines — Scott Greer [Poem, p. 10]
- No Respite — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 12]
- The Magnet — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 13]
- Village Bus — George Moor [Poem, p. 14]
- Alabastrum — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 15]
- New Land — Jean Burden [Poem, p. 16]
- Unfinished — Jean Burden [Poem, p. 17]
- Tea Party — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 18]
- Old Man, Alone — Hanson Kellogg [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. 3, Summer 1949. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.