Journal Issue
Poetry Must Have as Its Aim… gives this issue its argumentative center, with Paul Éluard setting the terms. The fiction—A Legend of Wilderness Road by Meridel Le Sueur; A Man’s First Duty by Hannah Johnston; As Befits Your Estate by Henry L. Wojtyla—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 Man at Mid-Century and Shine On Us, Moses, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 3 works of fiction, 21 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]
- A Legend of Wilderness Road — Meridel Le Sueur [Fiction, p. 3]
- The Man at Mid-Century — Winfield Townley Scott [Poem, p. 10]
- On Not Going to New Bedford — Winfield Townley Scott [Poem, p. 11]
- Death in Mexico — Ray Bradbury [Poem, p. 11]
- A Reminder — George Hitchcock [Poem, p. 13]
- Roughing It — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 14]
- The Cougar Has Been Shot — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 14]
- Spring Offensive — Don Geiger [Poem, p. 15]
- Mr. Metetinus in Quest of the Absolute — Lawrence Lipton [Poem, p. 16]
- Poem — Sanford Edelstein [Poem, p. 17]
- At Bushkill Falls — Walter Lowenfels [Poem, p. 18]
- Poetry Must Have as Its Aim… — Paul Éluard [Essay, p. 19]
- A Man’s First Duty — Hannah Johnston [Fiction, p. 20]
- Four Engravings — Morton Dimondstein [Artwork, p. 31]
- As Befits Your Estate — Henry L. Wojtyla [Fiction, p. 34]
- A Quaker History — August Kadow [Poem, p. 40]
- The Neo-Romanticist’s Complaint — August Kadow [Poem, p. 41]
- Solitudes — Babette Deutsch [Poem, p. 42]
- Tomorrow Song — Mary Fuller [Poem, p. 42]
- To Certain Men of Learning — Charles Humboldt [Poem, p. 43]
- Confusion at Sunrise — Oscar de Zuniga [Poem, p. 45]
- Intelligence Report — Howard Phillips [Poem, p. 45]
- The Dream-Powers — Nikolaus Lenau [Poem, p. 46]
- Adam and Eve — Harold Witt [Poem, p. 47]
- To a Salesman — Harold Witt [Poem, p. 48]
- Shine On Us, Moses — Ben Field [Poem, p. 49]
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Copyright 1954 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
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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. 2, 1954. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.