Journal Issue
Editorial gives this issue its argumentative center. The poetry runs from At the Station and Psychological Dissertation, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Dedication, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 18 poetry entries, 2 prose or editorial entries, 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 The result is a compact but varied record of the issue’s particular moment.
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Publication details
Full contents
- Editorial [Editorial, p. 1]
- Dedication [Essay, p. 4]
- At the Station — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 5]
- Someone Always Says — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 5]
- The Silent — Don Gordon [Poem, p. 6]
- To Rita — Ken McLaughlin [Poem, p. 8]
- Complaint of the Instinct — Gene Frumkin [Poem, p. 9]
- Philip Emall Strolls in the Evening — Gene Frumkin [Poem, p. 10]
- Seaside Album — Tom Viertel [Poem, p. 11]
- A Net for Venus — Lee Robinson [Poem, p. 12]
- The Perpetual Bourgeois — Alice McGrath [Poem, p. 12]
- Poem — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 13]
- Conscript’s Song — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 13]
- Idiot Joe Prays… — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 14]
- And If You Don’t See What You Want… — Edwin Rolfe [Poem, p. 15]
- Ritual — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 16]
- Ballad — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 17]
- A Plug Hat for the Archetypical Man — Lawrence Lipton [Poem, p. 18]
- Night-Prayer for Various Trades — Naomi Replansky [Poem, p. 21]
- Psychological Dissertation — James Boyer May [Poem, p. 22]
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Copyright 1955 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
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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.
*Coastlines*, vol. I, no. 1, Spring 1955. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.