California Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn 1953) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

Portrait of an Undesirable Alien gives this issue its argumentative center, with Frank Scully setting the terms. The fiction—The Pepper Tree by Esther McCoy; The Homesteader by James Wyckoff—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 Korea and Small Boy and Lighthouse, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 2 works of fiction, 24 poetry entries, 1 prose or editorial entry, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms Short pieces sit beside more sustained contributions, and the sequence keeps changing scale without losing the issue’s central literary concerns.

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Publication details

Journal: California Quarterly
Volume: 3
Issue number: 1
Issue date: Autumn 1953
Editor: Editorial Board (see Publication Details)
Publisher: The California Quarterly, Inc.
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 68 PDF pages. Clean 6 x 9 reader's edition: 111 PDF pages.
Record ID: california-quarterly-v3-n1-1953

Full contents

The Pepper Tree — Esther McCoy [Fiction, p. 3]
The Harvest of Peace: A Cantata — Randall Swingler [Poetry sequence, p. 31]
Korea — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 31]
The Soldier’s Mother — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 32]
Elegy for the Stricken Harvest — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 33]
The Trained Killers — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 34]
The Advancing Light — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 35]
The Song of the Wind — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 35]
The Turning World — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 37]
The Awakening Forest — Randall Swingler [Poem, p. 38]
Portrait of an Undesirable Alien — Frank Scully [Essay, p. 39]
Men from the Mountains — G. W. Brandt [Poem, p. 47]
Anna Livia’s Country — Ewart Milne [Poem, p. 48]
This Houseless Head — Ewart Milne [Poem, p. 49]
Cold War Poet — Ewart Milne [Poem, p. 49]
Chained Convicts at Work on the Cricket Patch, Enugu — Montagu Slater [Poem, p. 50]
Cock Crow — Montagu Slater [Poem, p. 50]
The Fear — Montagu Slater [Poem, p. 51]
Running Across the Battlefield — Norman Buller [Poem, p. 51]
Poem for the Dead and the Living — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 52]
For a Newborn Child — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 52]
The Elgin Marbles Are Compulsory — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 53]
Elected Landscape — W. V. Evans [Poem, p. 53]
The Fifties — Roy Fuller [Poem, p. 54]
Images of Autumn — Roy Fuller [Poem, p. 54]
The Charcoal Burner’s Daughter — Sydney Tremayne [Poem, p. 55]
Small Boy and Lighthouse — Sydney Tremayne [Poem, p. 55]
Seamy Side — Arnold Mesches [Artwork, p. 56]
The Boners — Arnold Mesches [Artwork, p. 57]
Vernon Trucks — Arnold Mesches [Artwork, p. 57]
The Coronation — Arnold Mesches [Artwork, p. 58]
The Homesteader — James Wyckoff [Fiction, p. 59]

Rights and citation

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. 3, no. 1, Autumn 1953. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.