Extremes & ModerationsA Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry

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The Room and Convalescence give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind. Most of the 15 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 Editorial shifts the number from practice to criticism, making its stylistic choices explicit without flattening the contrasts among the poems.

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  • The Room — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 23]
  • Grief — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 24]
  • Halos — Candace T. Stevenson [Poem, p. 25]
  • Invitation — Peter M. Urquhart [Poem, p. 26]
  • The Violated — Peter M. Urquhart [Poem, p. 27]
  • Crossing the Forth Bridge — Desmond Stewart [Poem, p. 28]
  • Longing for Night Experienced in Bagdad — Desmond Stewart [Poem, p. 29]
  • Oasis Remembered — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 30]
  • Soundings — Elinor Lennen [Poem, p. 31]
  • Toward Shores of Light — Lucille Evans [Poem, p. 32]
  • Brown Sticks — Rose Rosberg [Poem, p. 33]
  • Adventure — Florence Kerr Brownell [Poem, p. 34]
  • Sentinel — Florence Kerr Brownell [Poem, p. 35]
  • Oriental Bird in a Western Garden — Elma Dean [Poem, p. 36]
  • Convalescence — Helen Frith Stickney [Poem, p. 37]
  • Editorial [Essay, p. 38]
  • Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 39]
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Copyright 1952

Copyright Status Unresolved

The issue bears a 1952 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Variegation*, vol. VII, no. 26, Spring 1952. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.