Journal Issue
America’s Literary Underground gives this issue its argumentative center, with Lawrence Lipton setting the terms. The fiction—Don’t Take No for an Answer by George Garrett; Drunkards’ Sundays by Lloyd Zimpel—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 Auto-da-Fé and Reserved, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Water on the Grave, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 2 works of fiction, 9 poetry entries, 7 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
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- Don’t Take No for an Answer — George Garrett [Fiction, p. 9]
- Drunkards’ Sundays — Lloyd Zimpel [Fiction, p. 17]
- Auto-da-Fé — Carl Larsen [Poem, p. 7]
- Two Poems — Brian Parvin [Poem, p. 8]
- James Joyce — Harry Hooton [Poem, p. 15]
- Art of the Sonnet: XXV — Gil Orlovitz [Poem, p. 15]
- The Engineer — Philip Whalen [Poem, p. 16]
- The Race — Robert Eskew [Poem, p. 16]
- The Newest Criticism — Richard Ashman [Poem, p. 24]
- Hi-Ho on a Patriotic Day — David Cornel DeJong [Poem, p. 25]
- Reserved — Joseph Martinek [Poem, p. 33]
- America’s Literary Underground — Lawrence Lipton [Essay, p. 3]
- Reform and the Myth of Perfection — Barding Dahl [Essay, p. 26]
- A Note on This Issue [Editorial, p. 36]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 38]
- The Conformity of Non-Conformity — Mel Weisburd [Editorial, p. 39]
- Blunderbuss: The Little Theatre [Review, p. 34]
- The Pocket Poet Series — Thomas McGrath [Review, p. 35]
- Water on the Grave — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 37]
- Cover — Arnold Mesches [Artwork]
- Savoy — Mario Casetta [Artwork]
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Copyright 1956 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1956 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1956; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. II, no. 2, Winter 1956–57. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.