Journal Issue
Dayspring and Assignments give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 11 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
- Jean Burden
- Marjorie Hansen
- Eunice Clise
- Elizabeth Welch Craig
- David Palmer
- Charlene Palmer
- Joseph Joel Keith
- Gertrude May Lutz
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Dayspring — Jean Burden [Poem, p. 3]
- Of the Unpossessed — Marjorie Hansen [Poem, p. 4]
- Prelude to Sleep — Eunice Clise [Poem, p. 5]
- Conflict — Elizabeth Welch Craig [Poem, p. 6]
- Conclusion — Elizabeth Welch Craig [Poem, p. 7]
- Electrophobia — David Palmer [Poem, p. 8]
- Scene from a Window — Charlene Palmer [Poem, p. 9]
- Essay on a Broken Shadow — David Palmer [Poem, p. 10]
- Anthology in Braille — Joseph Joel Keith [Poem, p. 11]
- Cellini Salt Cellar — Gertrude May Lutz [Poem, p. 12]
- Assignments — Aveline Perkins [Poem, p. 13]
- Poem Reviews — Jean Burden · Lucille Evans [Essay, p. 17]
- Contributors’ Notes [Contributor notes, p. 19]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1951
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The issue bears a 1951 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. VI, no. 4, Autumn 1951. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.