Journal Issue
Things of the Earth gives this issue its argumentative center, with Nelson Algren setting the terms. The fiction—The Trade-in by Edward Huebsch; Fear by Phillip Bonosky; Rain on the Road by Delmas W. Abbott—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 From a Parade of Freaks and Comment 1951–52, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into A Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- Things of the Earth — Nelson Algren [Essay, p. 3]
- From a Parade of Freaks — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 12]
- Great Age — Millen Brand [Poem, p. 15]
- Ralph Berky — Millen Brand [Poem, p. 15]
- Both Married — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 16]
- The Trade-in — Edward Huebsch [Fiction, p. 18]
- Jefferson Memorial — Norman Rosten [Poem, p. 26]
- Stalingrad—1943 — Boris Pasternak [Poem, p. 28]
- Paradise — Arthur Boyars [Poem, p. 30]
- Fear — Phillip Bonosky [Fiction, p. 31]
- Rain on the Road — Delmas W. Abbott [Fiction, p. 39]
- Year of the Bloodhound — Lawrence Fixel [Poem, p. 47]
- The Investigation — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 48]
- The Witnesses — Charles Humboldt [Poem, p. 50]
- The Careful Life — Charles Humboldt [Poem, p. 51]
- Comment 1951–52 — Brian Vrepont [Poem, p. 52]
- The Pilgrimage — Douglas Woolf [Fiction, p. 54]
- Life and Letters [Essay, p. 58]
- A Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master — Jourdon Anderson [Essay, p. 63]
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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. 2, no. 1, Autumn 1952. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.