Journal Issue
Soap Bubble and Assignments give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 12 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
- Gertrude May Lutz
- Rosalie Moore
- Virginia Russ
- Kate Rennie Archer
- Elliott R. Bell
- Hanson Kellogg
- Joseph Joel Keith
- Charles Angoff
More contributors (5)
Publication details
Full contents
- Soap Bubble — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 3]
- Old Actor — Rosalie Moore [Poem, p. 4]
- Lake Latitude — Rosalie Moore [Poem, p. 5]
- The Midnight Showboat — Virginia Russ [Poem, p. 6]
- Again Eden — Kate Rennie Archer [Poem, p. 8]
- Interior — Elliott R. Bell [Poem, p. 10]
- Housewife — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 11]
- Negro Child Lost — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 12]
- Song for a Midnight Dance — Charles Angoff [Poem, p. 13]
- Anniversary I — Eve Merriam [Poem, p. 14]
- Anniversary II — Eve Merriam [Poem, p. 15]
- Assignments — Aveline Perkins [Poem, p. 16]
- Poem Reviews — Aveline Perkins - Jean Burden - Lawrence P. Spingarn - Hanson Kellogg - Joseph Joel Keith - Grover Jacoby [Essay, p. 18]
- Contributors' Notes [Contributor notes, p. 19]
Rights and citation
Copyright, 1950 by Grover Jacoby
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The issue bears a 1950 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. V, no. 1, Winter 1950. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.