Journal Issue
From the 1855 Preface gives this issue its argumentative center, with Walt Whitman setting the terms. The fiction—The Little Jew, My Brother by Ben Field; Mightier Than the Pen by Lars Lawrence; Cry Baby Cry by Ruth V. Goodwin—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 Eight Poems and Poem, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 4 works of fiction, 10 poetry entries, 1 prose or editorial entry, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms The result is a compact but varied record of the issue’s particular moment.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- The Little Jew, My Brother — Ben Field [Fiction, p. 3]
- Eight Poems — Phelps Putnam [Poem, p. 20]
- Mightier Than the Pen — Lars Lawrence [Fiction, p. 25]
- Cry Baby Cry — Ruth V. Goodwin [Fiction, p. 31]
- Four Drawings — Martin Lubner [Artwork, p. 43]
- The Trial of 6265 — Bernard Raymund [Fiction, p. 46]
- Death of the Architect — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 51]
- A Modern Miracle — Ray Smith [Poem, p. 52]
- All the Dead Poets — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 52]
- Winter 1950 — Bruce Duff Hooton [Poem, p. 54]
- Prep-School Headmaster — George Abbe [Poem, p. 54]
- For Poets, In and Out of Universities — Don Geiger [Poem, p. 56]
- Conversation: Liberal Arts Teacher and Poet — Don Geiger [Poem, p. 57]
- Unorthodox Warfare — W. S. Allen [Poem, p. 57]
- Poem — Emile Snyder [Poem, p. 57]
- From the 1855 Preface — Walt Whitman [Essay, p. 59]
- Index to Volume III [Index, p. 63]
- Cover design — Morton Dimondstein [Artwork]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1955 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1955 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1955; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 3, no. 4, 1955. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.