Trace, No. 62–63 (Fall–Winter 1966) – Extremes

Journal Issue

This Fall–Winter 1966 number of Trace is best met through the writing itself. It contains 72 named pieces or sections, beginning with Poetry Continued by by Randall Parham Homecoming, SUBIR 56 00000000000000000000000 0c, and SEUUIRER 6 o 0 0000000000000000000000C by Frances Murray. That opening offers a direct path through the issue, but it is not the only one. A reader can follow the printed order, pause over a familiar contributor, or start with a title that catches the eye. No special background is needed. The magazine explains itself gradually through the choices it makes and through the company each piece keeps.

Poetry Continued by by Randall Parham Homecoming gives Trace no. 62–63 its clearest point of entry, while SUBIR 56 00000000000000000000000 0c and SEUUIRER 6 o 0 0000000000000000000000C by Frances Murray widen the issue’s field. Dated Fall–Winter 1966, this expansive number contains 79 pieces or named sections, moving between writing about literature, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the everyday work of a little magazine. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own aims, so the magazine feels like an exchange among writers rather than a stack of unrelated pages. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the private source facsimile preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory information that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the reading edition and private source record show James Boyer May keeping a place for new writing while also showing how independent magazines found one another.

The contents page also works like a small map. Early entries establish the issue’s first set of voices; around the middle, Richard L. Dalon changes the view; the closing stretch reaches Remembering Eros by James Hiner. The works differ in length, subject, and manner, yet their placement creates connections that a simple list of names cannot show. The pleasure comes from those changes. A short piece can clear the air after a longer one, a new voice can redirect the mood, and an unexpected title can make an earlier page look different when the reader thinks back to it.

The contributor list includes A. Fredric Franklyn, Alexander Playwright, Anne-Marie Baumgartner, Anne-Marie Scherger Baumgartner, Arnold Kantrowitz, Barriss Mills, Beatrice Levin, and Beth Lipscomb, along with 109 additional contributors. Some readers will arrive looking for a particular name; others will meet these contributors here for the first time. Either approach works. The publication details add useful context: the issue was edited by James Boyer May, published by Villiers Publications Ltd., and issued from London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office). A journal is also a made object, assembled by people deciding what to print, how to order it, and which voices should share a number. Reading from beginning to end lets those choices appear naturally.

The catalog subjects—Little magazines, Experimental literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Literary criticism—are useful starting points, especially for searching, but they do not set limits on what a reader may find. For a first visit, begin with Poetry Continued by by Randall Parham Homecoming, turn next to Richard L. Dalon, and finish with Remembering Eros by James Hiner. The clean reading edition is designed for that kind of movement. Original scan: 278 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 314 PDF pages. It keeps the contents in a stable, legible form and makes names and titles easier to find. A source facsimile remains part of the project’s private editorial record, but it is not included in the public upload. What appears here is the reading copy: a practical way to spend time with the issue and discover which pieces invite a return.

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Contributors

A. Fredric Franklyn — Essayist
Alexander Playwright — Contributor
Anne-Marie Baumgartner — Poet
Anne-Marie Scherger Baumgartner — Contributor
Arnold Kantrowitz — Contributor
Barriss Mills — Contributor
Beatrice Levin — Contributor
Beth Lipscomb — Poet
Brown Miller — Contributor
Charles Goldberg — Poet
Charles Tekeyan — Fiction writer
Charles Wyatt — Contributor
Christopher Perret — Poet
Clarence Alva Powell — Contributor
CORMORAN y Delfin — Contributor
COYOTE — Contributor
CRUST, Vancouver City Coll., Vancouver, B.C., Can — Contributor
D. McKee — Correspondent
Dan Georgakas — Contributor
David Bartholomew — Contributor
David Margolis — Poet
DEFENDER, The Defiance Coll., Defiance, Ohio — Contributor
Donald Freed — Poet
Donald Mishell — Fiction writer
Dorothy Ellin Flax — Contributor
Earl E LaClair — Contributor
Elizabeth Louch — Contributor
Emilie Glen — Contributor
Felix Singer — Correspondent
Felix Singer Alexander Playwright — Fiction writer
Frances Murray — Fiction writer
Francis Murray — Contributor
Frank Segger — Poet
Fred M. Dailey — Contributor
G. R. Morgan — Contributor
Gene Fowler — Essayist
George W. Linden — Poet
Gil Orlovitz — Poet
H. M. Gordy — Poet
Hans Juergensen — Correspondent
Harland Ristau — Contributor
Harold Fleming — Contributor
Helen L. Gilkey — Poet
Henkin, William A., Jr — Contributor
Herbert Morris — Fiction writer
Howard McCord — Contributor
Ignace M. Ingianni — Poet
Irene Schram — Poet
J. Michael Yates — Poet
J. T McIntire — Contributor
James A Minor — Contributor
James Boyer May — Essayist
James D. Houston — Essayist
James Dougherty — Poet
James Hiner — Essayist
Jascha Kessler — Contributor
Jerry H. Burns — Correspondent
Jerry L. — and Guy Owen — Miller — Contributor
Jo Lombard — Fiction writer
John Hideyo Hamamura — Poet
John Mohme — Contributor
Joseph H Kempf — Contributor
Karl Krolow — Poet
Katherine Gorman — Contributor
Keith Gunderson — Contributor
Lady Luck — Contributor
Laurence A Goldstein — Contributor
Lee Hickman — Poet
Marcus Valerius Martialis — Contributor
Marilyn Harris — Fiction writer
Marion Schoeberlein — Poet
Marti Kristen — Contributor
Martial — Poet
Martin Steingesser — Poet
Mary Frances Hardin — Contributor
Mary Graham Lund — Essayist
Michael LeBeck — Contributor
Myles Eric Ludwig — Contributor
Oh la la — Contributor
Paul W. Sawyer — Poet
Peter Meinke — Contributor
Randall Parham — Poet
Randall Parham Homecoming — Poet
Raymond Barrio — Essayist
Raymond O'Hara — Poet
Richard L. Dalen — Fiction writer
Richard L. Dalon — Contributor
Robert Sward — Correspondent
Robin Johnson — Contributor
Sam Bradley — Correspondent
Seymour Gresser — Poet
Stanislaw Grochowiak — Poet
Stanley Cooperman — Poet
Stanley Trybulski — Poet
Steuart Bjornsson — Poet
Steven Osterlund — Poet
Stuart Z. Perkoff — Poet
Thomas Bledsoe — Contributor
Three Eschatologists and — Contributor
Throw Kisses with Your Eyes — Contributor
Tracy Thompson — Poet
Tu Fu — Poet
Velma Armstrong — Fiction writer
Victor Contoski — Essayist
Vlassis Caniaris — Poet
W. Arthur Boggs — Contributor
Walter Benesch — Fiction writer
William A. Henkin, Jr — Contributor
William Erwin — Contributor
William Harris — Contributor
William Packard — Essayist

Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 62–63
Issue date: Fall–Winter 1966
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 278 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 314 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-62-63-1966

Full contents

Poetry Continued — by Randall Parham Homecoming [Contribution, p. 8]
SUBIR 56 00000000000000000000000 0c [Contribution, p. 9]
SEUUIRER 6 o 0 0000000000000000000000C — Frances Murray [Contribution, p. 10]
Farce & Playlet [Contribution, p. 20]
Offshoots from New Grafts [Contribution, p. 0]
More Poems [Poem, p. 2]
Lillabulero 2.0 — JAMES BOYER MAY [Contribution, p. 0]
Editors [Contribution, p. 2]
Brain Washing Hypnogogic Recall & an Approach to Poetics — Gene Fowler [Contribution, p. 16]
Sensory and behavioral recall [Contribution, p. 21]
Towards Print (current Poetries: Expanding, Yet Unthinning) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 22]
SELECTED POEMS, Earle Birney (McCLELLAND & STEWART, Ltd. — $5.), is a large book filled with much of the best from a major poet. Although Birney is Canadian, he has lived in many places throughout the world, and little of this volume is classifiable as regional; nor is it thematically limited — his perceptions range as widely as his travels. The work is replete with lines demanding quotation. At random — from Anglosaxon Street — by Randall Parham Homecoming [Poem, p. 8]
For the Absolutists — Tracy Thompson [Poem, p. 0]
The Chronicle [Reference, p. 33]
Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 34]
A Teaching Poet’s Blunt Opinion — Sam Bradley [Correspondence, p. 34]
Another Has His Say in Verse — Hans Juergensen [Correspondence, p. 34]
And So Does a Nonteaching Writer — Felix Singer [Correspondence, p. 35]
A Few Mcke(y)d Reactions to Trace — D. McKee [Correspondence, p. 39]
Krita Yuga . . . Kali Yuga — Anne-Marie Baumgartner [Poem, p. 40]
The Golden Prof — Raymond Barrio [Essay, p. 41]
Alas! — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 50]
There Are No Epics Any More? — Sam Bradley [Essay, p. 51]
A Few Exploratory Remarks — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 51]
Farm-yard Realism with Mirrors — Mary Graham Lund [Essay, p. 56]
In Part Two of GOAT’S MILK AND MIRRORS, subtitled Esthetics Lewis attempts to portray the poet working in the labyrinth of modern poetic method, the ‘lyric way.’ This began five centuries ago among the artists of Florence when Brunelleschi discovered ‘perspective’: the principle of an ordered recession to create an illusion of deep space which enabled the artist to show complex forms with all their facets in the round. In the viewer, the vanishing point may induce a metaphysical giddiness: at that spot, the picture dissolves into nothing, or leads into eternity. Five centuries later, Cezanne and the cubists, under the influence of new spatial discoveries in physics and mathematics, saw the visible world broken down and reassembled in spheres, cubes cones. Again, the viewer may wonder! Does it add up to zero or to infinity, this geometric dance of artifacts? What do Picasso’s efforts to compress time and space into a single dimension mean to our culture — a clowning parody of science or the prelude to a new break-through in knowledge? Is it magic or hallucination that gives us a view of face or form from all angles? Or a new view of reality that may lead to eternal truths? [Contribution, p. 59]
it works — Oh la la [Contribution, p. 81]
The Gift of Many Happy Returns — Throw Kisses with Your Eyes [Contribution, p. 82]
I have been very happy — Throw Kisses with Your Eyes [Contribution, p. 83]
Fresh Violets Today [Contribution, p. 84]
The Clay Man — Marilyn Harris [Fiction, p. 85]
Marilyn Harris [Contribution, p. 90]
Mobius Trip* — David Bartholomew [Contribution, p. 107]
Miasma: the Deification of the Beast — Clarence Alva Powell [Contribution, p. 108]
Charles Tekeyan [Contribution, p. 113]
Vanquished — Richard L. Dalen [Fiction, p. 120]
Richard L. Dalon [Contribution, p. 123]
Pithecanthropus Erectus — Donald Mishell [Fiction, p. 133]
Pit Number Ten [Contribution, p. 137]
New York & the World Cinema — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 144]
Permanence & Impermanence: Keatsian Mutability — W. Arthur Boggs [Contribution, p. 151]
The Same Cowboy — Victor Contoski [Essay, p. 168]
A Theme in Modern American Poetry — Victor Contoski [Contribution, p. 169]
William Packard: Poetry in the Theatre—ii [Contribution, p. 173]
A Portrait of the Writer as an Old Hat — James D. Houston [Essay, p. 182]
Fragments of the Electra* (@for Barboura) [Contribution, p. 190]
Fragments of the Oedipus — I (for L. J. F.) [Contribution, p. 191]
Prologue to an Autobiography — Gil Orlovitz [Poem, p. 193]
Letters to Frank Tierney — Seymour Gresser [Poem, p. 199]
Letter I [Contribution, p. 199]
(dante’s 700th Anniversary) Instrument of Proper Power [Contribution, p. 202]
The Sources of Charlie — Charles Goldberg [Poem, p. 206]
For Christopher Perret (1930 — 1965) [Contribution, p. 211]
Further Work on What Has Been Spoiled — Lee Hickman [Poem, p. 213]
The Final Play — by Felix Singer Alexander Playwright [Fiction, p. 216]
Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 218]
Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 220]
Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 223]
Felix Singer [Contribution, p. 226]
Christopher Perret [Poem, p. 231]
Everything Fortunate and Deep with Love — Herbert Morris [Fiction, p. 235]
Herbert Morris [Contribution, p. 240]
Herbert Morris [Contribution, p. 248]
Herbert Morris [Contribution, p. 252]
Herbert Morris [Contribution, p. 256]
Herbert Morris [Contribution, p. 260]
The Garden of Delight — Velma Armstrong [Fiction, p. 264]
Velma Armstrong [Contribution, p. 266]
A Current Bad Dream — Jascha Kessler [Contribution, p. 269]
Disclosures from the Other Side — Harland Ristau [Contribution, p. 270]
A Five-Act Play for Four Minutes — Three Eschatologists and [Contribution, p. 270]
Three Eschatologists and a Bassoon — Walter Benesch [Fiction, p. 271]
The Spider Who Took Lsd — Jo Lombard [Fiction, p. 276]
Jo Lombard [Contribution, p. 278]
A Pox on Mediocrity — Frances Murray [Fiction, p. 280]
(An Interview with Algonquin Whiffenpoof) — Francis Murray [Interview, p. 280]
N.y.—world Cinema (continued from Page 357) [Contribution, p. 287]
The Cool World [Contribution, p. 301]
Remembering Eros — James Hiner [Essay, p. 309]

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Trace, no. 62–63 (Fall–Winter 1966). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.