Journal Issue
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens gives this issue its argumentative center, with Gene Frumkin setting the terms. The fiction—The Synagogue by Gene Frumkin; A Question of a U-Valve by Barding Dahl—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 The American and Two Satires, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Treading the Boards in Los Angeles, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions. The printed contents bring together 2 works of fiction, 5 poetry entries, and 3 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
- Gene Frumkin
- Barding Dahl
- Mel Weisburd
- Stanley Kiesel
- Peter Yates
- Ray Fabrizio
- Norbert Schiller
- Tom Viertel
More contributors (1)
Publication details
Full contents
- The Synagogue — Gene Frumkin [Fiction, p. 3]
- A Question of a U-Valve — Barding Dahl [Fiction, p. 14]
- The American — Mel Weisburd [Poem, p. 12]
- Three Poems — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 27]
- Three Poems — Peter Yates [Poem, p. 31]
- Infiltration Course — Ray Fabrizio [Poem, p. 47]
- Two Satires — Norbert Schiller [Poem, p. 50]
- Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens — Gene Frumkin [Review, p. 37]
- The Double World of Thomas McGrath — Tom Viertel and Mel Weisburd [Review, p. 39]
- Treading the Boards in Los Angeles — Barding Dahl [Review, p. 44]
- Cover — Martin Lubner [Artwork]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 55]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1955 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1955 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1955; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. I, no. 2, Summer 1955. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.