Journal Issue
From You and Contemporary Poetry gives this issue its argumentative center, with George Abbe setting the terms. The fiction—The End of Summer by Chester Aaron; Reactivated Man by Curtis Zahn—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 Six Poems and How Do I Love Thee, 1955, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Statement of Editorial Policy, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 2 works of fiction, 6 poetry entries, 5 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
- Chester Aaron
- Curtis Zahn
- Vahan K. Gregory
- Winfield Townley Scott
- Lori Petri
- Robert S. Martin
- Melissa Blake
- Wallace Rena
More contributors (5)
Publication details
Full contents
- The End of Summer — Chester Aaron [Fiction, p. 3]
- Reactivated Man — Curtis Zahn [Fiction, p. 16]
- Six Poems — Vahan K. Gregory [Poem, p. 12]
- Two Poems — Winfield Townley Scott [Poem, p. 22]
- Six A.M — Lori Petri [Poem, p. 23]
- A Question — Robert S. Martin [Poem, p. 23]
- Raccoons of the World — Melissa Blake [Poem, p. 24]
- How Do I Love Thee, 1955 — Wallace Rena [Poem, p. 24]
- From You and Contemporary Poetry — George Abbe [Essay, p. 25]
- As If, by John Ciardi; Permit Me Refuge, by Edwin Rolfe — Gene Frumkin [Review, p. 30]
- Two Novels of Timothy Pember — Tom Viertel [Review, p. 32]
- Index to Volume I [Index, p. 34]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 36]
- News Note [Editorial, p. 39]
- Statement of Editorial Policy [Editorial, p. 40]
- Cover — Chris Jenkyns [Artwork]
- Savoy — Mario Casetta [Artwork]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1956 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
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.
*Coastlines*, vol. I, no. 4, Spring 1956. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.