Journal Issue
Elegy for a Soldier of the Spanish Civil War opens a number whose strongest movement comes through poetry. The fiction—The Year of the Tree by Teresa Mann; The Old Furnaces by Millen Brand—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 Elegy for a Soldier of the Spanish Civil War and The Conquistadores (excerpts from Canto General), shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 2 works of fiction, 26 poetry entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- Edwin Rolfe: 1909–1954 [Memorial, p. 3]
- Elegy for a Soldier of the Spanish Civil War — Eugene Frumkin [Poem, p. 3]
- Seven Poems — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 6]
- Proclaim, Proclaim — Edith Witt [Poem, p. 12]
- At the Slow Equator of Twenty-Five — Eugene Frumkin [Poem, p. 16]
- The Waiting Room at the County Hospital — Eugene Frumkin [Poem, p. 16]
- Elegy for a Tailor — Eugene Frumkin [Poem, p. 17]
- Pity the Child — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 18]
- The Love Romantics Have — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 19]
- My Father — Melvin Weisburd [Poem, p. 19]
- The Elephant — Melvin Weisburd [Poem, p. 20]
- Peacock: Orange County Park — Ray Fabrizio [Poem, p. 21]
- Golden Gate Bridge — Ray Fabrizio [Poem, p. 21]
- Count Nine — Les Thompson [Poem, p. 23]
- Pages from a Sketch Book — David Lemon [Artwork, p. 29]
- The Year of the Tree — Teresa Mann [Fiction, p. 32]
- The Old Furnaces — Millen Brand [Fiction, p. 38]
- Consider the Meaning of Love — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 41]
- The Dissenter — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 42]
- The Travelers — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 42]
- Riddle — Waldeen [Poem, p. 43]
- The Quartz Heart — Waldeen [Poem, p. 44]
- Jury Duty — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 44]
- Snowmountain — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 45]
- Pacific Ocean, the Present — Jeannette Maino [Poem, p. 46]
- Doppler’s Effect — Melissa Blake [Poem, p. 47]
- Song of the White Ant — Melissa Blake [Poem, p. 48]
- The Several Advantages of Living Under a Tin Roof — Melissa Blake [Poem, p. 48]
- The Pondo War — Bernard Raymund [Poem, p. 49]
- The Conquistadores (excerpts from Canto General) — Pablo Neruda [Poem, p. 56]
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Copyright 1954 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1954 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1954; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 3, no. 3, 1954. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.