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In Gaydiang, Ruth Comfort Mitchell brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus. The poem builds by refrain and recurrence around “Eight to six each working day”; repetition carries the poem’s turn rather than merely decorating it, bringing work and modern routine into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Along the Bayous keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. The presence of a named form such as Sonnet makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
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- Ernestine Schumann-Heink — Charles F. Lummis [Poem, p. 5]
- Along the Bayous — Pierrepont Willard [Poem, p. 6]
- Gaydiang — Ruth Comfort Mitchell [Poem, p. 7]
- Molly by the Shore — Ernest McGaffey [Poem, p. 10]
- Ballade of Mary Queen of Scots — Ernest McGaffey [Poem, p. 11]
- Sequence — Pauline Barrington [Poem, p. 13]
- To the South — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 17]
- March Song — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 18]
- The Violincello — Estella M. Williamson [Poem, p. 18]
- Sonnet — Belle Cooper [Poem, p. 20]
- A Song of Three Harbors — Grace Atherton Dennen [Poem, p. 21]
- Protest — Snow Longley [Poem, p. 22]
- Mid-Atlantic — Snow Longley [Poem, p. 22]
- The Account — Grace Wallace [Poem, p. 23]
- Visitors — Grace Wallace [Poem, p. 23]
- Salton Sea — Ben Field [Poem, p. 24]
- Septains — Anna Porter [Poem, p. 25]
- Poem from “The Wild Heart” — Florence Parker Bornholdt [Poem, p. 26]
- For I Was Wed Today — Florence Parker Bornholdt [Poem, p. 27]
- Evening Primroses — Anonymous [Poem, p. 28]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1921. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.