Journal Issue
Lysergic Acid and the Creative Experience gives this issue its argumentative center, with Mel Weisburd setting the terms. The fiction—Time of the Blue Guitar by Robert Eskew; A Girl, a Dream, an Accident by Curtis Zahn; The Voice Behind by Tom Poots—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 Garden Prospect and Three Poems, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Ballad, Wit and Nonsense, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions.
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- Time of the Blue Guitar — Robert Eskew [Fiction, p. 8]
- A Girl, a Dream, an Accident — Curtis Zahn [Fiction, p. 23]
- The Voice Behind — Tom Poots [Fiction, p. 40]
- The Garden Prospect — Peter Yates [Poem, p. 3]
- Four Poems — James Schevill [Poem, p. 15]
- En Route — Jack Anderson [Poem, p. 18]
- Two Poems — Ruth Finer Mintz [Poem, p. 19]
- Revolt in Manhattan — Grove Becker [Poem, p. 20]
- Two Poems — Scott Greer [Poem, p. 21]
- Ah to the Villages — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 34]
- Two Poems — Barbara Gibbs [Poem, p. 35]
- Poems About Houses — Jed Garrick [Poem, p. 36]
- Parabolic Egypt — Ralph L. Kinsey [Poem, p. 37]
- To My Catholic Daughter — Henry Birnbaum [Poem, p. 37]
- The Last Damned Nazi — Ralph Treitel [Poem, p. 38]
- A Dream of Days and Long Nights — Lewis Turco [Poem, p. 39]
- Three Poems — Louis Johnson [Poem, p. 46]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- Lysergic Acid and the Creative Experience — Mel Weisburd [Essay, p. 27]
- Blunderbuss what's going on up and down the coast [Essay, p. 53]
- Editorial: Hark, Hark, the Laugh! — Gene Frumkin [Essay, p. 55]
- The Epic Restored — Mel Weisburd [Review, p. 48]
- Ballad, Wit and Nonsense — Ann Stanford [Review, p. 51]
- Cover — David Lemon [Artwork]
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Copyright 1958 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
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The issue bears a 1958 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1958; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. III, no. 2, Spring–Summer 1958. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.