Journal Issue
The Crisis in Books gives this issue its argumentative center, with Angus Cameron setting the terms. The fiction—The Siege of Change by Lawrence P. Spingarn; God Bless America by John O. Killens; Dolores by Lars Lawrence—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 Lamp in the Earth and Textbook of a Return to My Native Land, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 5 works of fiction, 9 poetry entries, 1 prose or editorial entry, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- Lamp in the Earth — Pablo Neruda [Poem, p. 3]
- The Crisis in Books — Angus Cameron [Essay, p. 10]
- Three Poems — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 20]
- To a Friend — John Williams [Poem, p. 22]
- The Identity of an Hour — Lawrence Fixel [Poem, p. 23]
- Still Life — Eve Merriam [Poem, p. 24]
- Monkey Wrench — Israel Newman [Poem, p. 25]
- The Single Man — Joan LaBombard [Poem, p. 26]
- A Nocturnal Discourse — Waldeen [Poem, p. 27]
- The Siege of Change — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Fiction, p. 29]
- God Bless America — John O. Killens [Fiction, p. 37]
- Dolores — Lars Lawrence [Fiction, p. 41]
- Textbook of a Return to My Native Land — Aimé Césaire [Poem, p. 51]
- The Jack of Hearts — Jean Burden [Fiction, p. 55]
- Border Raid — Seymour Rich [Fiction, p. 59]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1952 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1952 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1952; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1952. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.