Journal Issue
No Art Is Neutral gives this issue its argumentative center, with Charles Humboldt setting the terms. The fiction—People Like Us by William Norton; A Dog in a Tree: The Rain on the Glass by Lloyd Zimpel; The Visa by Sylvan Karchmer—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 Paul and The Phantom Sea, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 4 works of fiction, 10 poetry entries, 1 prose or editorial entry, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- No Art Is Neutral — Charles Humboldt [Essay, p. 3]
- People Like Us — William Norton [Fiction, p. 14]
- Paul — Louis Aragon [Poem, p. 23]
- Two Poems — Paul Éluard [Poem, p. 25]
- Two Poems — Jacques Prévert [Poem, p. 28]
- Five Poems — Guillevic [Poem, p. 30]
- A Dog in a Tree: The Rain on the Glass — Lloyd Zimpel [Fiction, p. 33]
- One Nine Five Three — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 43]
- An Imperial Fragment — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Poem, p. 44]
- Résistez l’infâme! — John Emery Mitchell [Poem, p. 46]
- Bullet — Ray Fabrizio [Poem, p. 48]
- Two Poems — Ernest Kroll [Poem, p. 49]
- The Phantom Sea — Ettore Rella [Poem, p. 50]
- The Visa — Sylvan Karchmer [Fiction, p. 52]
- The Terrible People — Jacques Barbicane [Fiction, p. 58]
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Copyright 1953 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
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The issue bears a 1953 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1953; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 2, no. 2, Winter 1953. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.