Journal Issue
To Readers and Writers gives this issue its argumentative center. The fiction—Combat Fatigue by William Norton; The Politician by Tiba G. Willner; The Little Iron Soldier by John Greenleaf Whittier—moves among private crisis, social pressure, and public consequence, with each story’s title and setting supplying a distinct point of entry. The poetry runs from Poem for Pastora Pavon and Two Mysteries, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Saturday Night with Hamlet, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 3 works of fiction, 17 poetry entries, 2 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- To Readers and Writers [Editorial, p. 3]
- Combat Fatigue — William Norton [Fiction, p. 12]
- Poem for Pastora Pavon — Leslie Woolf Hedley [Poem, p. 23]
- Three Songs — Richard Nickson [Poem, p. 24]
- The Swimmer — August Kadow [Poem, p. 26]
- Green Fires Flying — Lee Jenson [Poem, p. 27]
- The White Crane — Carl Selph [Poem, p. 28]
- Two Poems — Naomi Replansky [Poem, p. 29]
- Early Morning Bus — George Abbe [Poem, p. 31]
- Pedanta for the Whole Family — Ira Wallach [Poem, p. 32]
- Chin Up, Cosmos! — Ira Wallach [Poem, p. 35]
- Saturday Night with Hamlet — Herbert J. Biberman [Essay, p. 38]
- The African Affair — Bruce McM. Wright [Poem, p. 44]
- Three Poems — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 45]
- Song for the Make-Up Man — Norman Rosten [Poem, p. 47]
- County Courthouse, Summer — LeGarde S. Doughty [Poem, p. 48]
- Elegy for Edna Millay — Harold V. Witt [Poem, p. 49]
- Seniority — David Cornel DeJong [Poem, p. 50]
- Two Poems — Curtis Zahn [Poem, p. 51]
- Two Mysteries — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 53]
- The Politician — Tiba G. Willner [Fiction, p. 55]
- The Little Iron Soldier — John Greenleaf Whittier [Fiction, p. 59]
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Copyright 1952 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1952 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1952; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 1, no. 4, Summer 1952. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.