Journal Issue
The Place Called Choice: Overture and Part One gives this issue its argumentative center, with E. P. Thompson setting the terms. The fiction—D. P by George Tabori; The Daring Young Woman by Wilma Shore; Where My Dark Lover Lies by Gwyn Thomas—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 Three Poems and At the Zoo, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into The Editors, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The result is a compact but varied record of the issue’s particular moment.
Contributors
- George Tabori
- E. P. Thompson
- George P. Elliott
- Wilma Shore
- Gwyn Thomas
- Curtis Zahn
- Lawrence P. Spingarn
- Byron Herbert Reece
More contributors (4)
Publication details
Full contents
- D. P — George Tabori [Fiction, p. 3]
- The Place Called Choice: Overture and Part One — E. P. Thompson [Essay, p. 12]
- The Agenbite of Inwit as Agon of Kwakiutl — George P. Elliott [Essay, p. 25]
- The Daring Young Woman — Wilma Shore [Fiction, p. 27]
- Where My Dark Lover Lies — Gwyn Thomas [Fiction, p. 34]
- Three Poems — Curtis Zahn [Poem, p. 41]
- Two Poems — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Poem, p. 45]
- Elements — Byron Herbert Reece [Poem, p. 47]
- Sentry — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 48]
- Anniversary Card — Willard N. Marsh [Poem, p. 49]
- At the Zoo — Lois W. Briggs [Fiction, p. 50]
- Strong Silent Man — Jay Williams [Fiction, p. 56]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- The Editors [Editorial, p. 64]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1951 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1951 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1951; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 1, no. 1, Autumn 1951. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.