Journal Issue
Eve Walks and To a Collectivist give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 5 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 Poem Reviews shifts the number from practice to criticism, making its stylistic choices explicit without flattening the contrasts among the poems.
Contributors
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- Eve Walks — Jean Burden [Poem, p. 3]
- Indian Feathers — Muriel Spark [Poem, p. 4]
- Assignments — Aveline Perkins [Poem, p. 5]
- Gossamer Days and Daisies — Terence Heywood [Poem, p. 16]
- To a Collectivist — Grover Jacoby [Poem, p. 17]
- Poem Reviews [Essay, p. 18]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 21]
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Copyright 1949 by Grover Jacoby
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The issue bears a 1949 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. IV, no. 4, Autumn 1949. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.