Journal Issue
News Notes gives this issue its argumentative center. The fiction—War Meat by James Comorthoon; Crawdad Smith by Duane Jones; The Accused by Lachlan MacDonald—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 Letter to an Imaginary Friend and To a Life Insurance Salesman, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into The Hollow Tower, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 4 works of fiction, 10 poetry entries, 6 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
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- War Meat — James Comorthoon [Fiction, p. 7]
- Crawdad Smith — Duane Jones [Fiction, p. 14]
- The Accused — Lachlan MacDonald [Fiction, p. 21]
- How I Came to Draw Forces — Sylvia Jarrico [Fiction, p. 28]
- Letter to an Imaginary Friend — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 3]
- Four Poems — Lawrence S. Gurney [Poem, p. 11]
- Two Poems — James Schevill [Poem, p. 13]
- Two Poems — Edith G. Wies [Poem, p. 19]
- Two Poems — Felix Stefanile [Poem, p. 20]
- Two Poems — George Bluestone [Poem, p. 25]
- Shipyard No. 3—Richmond — Allen Ginsberg [Poem, p. 26]
- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway — Gregory Corso [Poem, p. 27]
- The Skin Divers — Walter H. Kerr [Poem, p. 35]
- To a Life Insurance Salesman — Norman Friedman [Poem, p. 36]
- News Notes [Editorial, p. 35]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 36]
- Correspondence [Essay, p. 37]
- Rebels and Conformists — Tom Viertel [Essay, p. 38]
- The Merchant of Venice — Mel Weisburd [Editorial, p. 39]
- Choreographer of Words — Gene Frumkin [Review, p. 32]
- The Hollow Tower — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 34]
- Cover — Sylvia Jarrico [Artwork]
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Copyright 1957 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1957 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1957; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. II, no. 3, Spring–Summer 1957. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.