Journal Issue
Beyond Loneliness gives this issue its argumentative center. The fiction—Babylon Descendent by Dalton Trumbo; The Root by Meridel Le Sueur; A Long Day in a Short Life by Albert Maltz—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 Hunted Revolutionaries and Slum, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style The printed contents bring together 3 works of fiction, 16 poetry entries, 1 prose or editorial entry, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms Short pieces sit beside more sustained contributions, and the sequence keeps changing scale without losing the issue’s central literary concerns.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Beyond Loneliness [Editorial, p. 2]
- Babylon Descendent — Dalton Trumbo [Fiction, p. 3]
- The Hunted Revolutionaries — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 10]
- Guadalajara — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 12]
- Love Lyrics — Mario Casetta [Poem, p. 13]
- Eden Made Plain — Ruth Forbes Sherry [Poem, p. 14]
- Night in the San Joaquin Valley — Jeannette Gould Maino [Poem, p. 15]
- I Hear the Echoes of Attilan Hordes — Eugene Frumkin [Poem, p. 15]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 16]
- Come Lie in the Sun — Edith Witt [Poem, p. 17]
- Four Woodcuts — Mario Casetta [Artwork, p. 24]
- Six Poems — Maurice Carpenter [Poem, p. 27]
- The Root — Meridel Le Sueur [Fiction, p. 32]
- The Fool’s Song of Tomorrow — Ewart Milne [Poem, p. 38]
- There Lived a Man — Ewart Milne [Poem, p. 39]
- Predicament — Gordon Wharton [Poem, p. 41]
- Comrade Worm — Gordon Wharton [Poem, p. 41]
- A Group of Noble Dames — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 42]
- Photographs of the Atomic Nucleus — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 43]
- Dead Reckoning Day — Jack Beeching [Poem, p. 44]
- Slum — Cressida Lindsay [Poem, p. 45]
- A Long Day in a Short Life — Albert Maltz [Fiction, p. 47]
- Cover design — Morton Dimondstein [Artwork]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1956 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1956 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1956; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 4, no. 1, 1956. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.