Journal Issue
The End of an Era gives this issue its argumentative center, with Martin Tucker setting the terms. The fiction—Tomorrow Will Be Worse, Daphalene by David R. Bunch; A Little Girl's Xmas in Modernia by David R. Bunch—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 Three Poems and On Houses with Gardens Attached, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Advertisements, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The result is a compact but varied record of the issue’s particular moment.
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- Tomorrow Will Be Worse, Daphalene — David R. Bunch [Fiction, p. 3]
- A Little Girl's Xmas in Modernia — David R. Bunch [Fiction, p. 31]
- Three Poems — William Pillin [Poem, p. 6]
- To Bessemer — G. W. Sherman [Poem, p. 9]
- Two Poems — Larry Rubin [Poem, p. 10]
- The Barren Fig Tree — Elizabeth Bartlett [Poem, p. 11]
- Three Poems — Arthur Carson [Poem, p. 12]
- Spine Some Facile Dame — Judson Crews [Poem, p. 13]
- Two Poems — Philip Appleman [Poem, p. 26]
- Bathing Beauty — George Garrett [Poem, p. 27]
- Low and East — Dorothea Walker [Poem, p. 28]
- Two Poems — Judson Jerome [Poem, p. 29]
- Somehow Things — William Esher [Poem, p. 30]
- Under a Fig Leaf — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 35]
- Three Poems — Sidney Gershgoren [Poem, p. 36]
- Freedom — Paul Éluard; translated by Dora M. Pettinella [Poem, p. 38]
- Bat — Melissa Blake [Poem, p. 40]
- On Houses with Gardens Attached — Robert Stock [Poem, p. 40]
- The End of an Era — Martin Tucker [Essay, p. 14]
- From Our English Correspondent — John Cooper [Essay, p. 18]
- Draga — Roy MacGregor-Hastie [Essay, p. 21]
- Blunderbuss an unhip view of the New Beatism [Essay, p. 51]
- Editorial: A Sentimental Foray — Gene Frumkin [Essay, p. 53]
- Books New or Neglected — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 42]
- A Humanist Sensibility: 1958 — Mel Weisburd [Review, p. 44]
- Craft and Comedy — Gene Frumkin [Review, p. 45]
- Eight Books from Jonathan Williams — Peter Yates [Review, p. 47]
- Advertisements — Curtis Zahn [Review, p. 50]
- Cover — Mae Babitz [Artwork]
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Copyright 1958 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
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The issue bears a 1958 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1958; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. III, no. 3, Autumn 1958. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.