Journal Issue
The Function of Criticism Reviewed gives this issue its argumentative center, with Peter Yates setting the terms. The fiction—A God Is Dead by Tom Poots—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 Pome, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Poetry of the Non-Existent City, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 1 work of fiction, 12 poetry entries, 8 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms.
Contributors
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Full contents
- A God Is Dead — Tom Poots [Fiction, p. 19]
- Three Poems — Winfield Townley Scott [Poem, p. 3]
- ‘We Are the Ones’ — Winifred Cullen [Poem, p. 9]
- Dow Jones: Down — Charles Bukowski [Poem, p. 14]
- Five Poems — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 15]
- Winter and Morning Traffic — George Starbuck [Poem, p. 18]
- Two Poems — Robert Sward [Poem, p. 29]
- Two Poems — Vahan K. Gregory [Poem, p. 31]
- Lines on a Fractured Tooth — Ron Offen [Poem, p. 32]
- Poem — Diane Wakoski [Poem, p. 33]
- The Crippled Girl — R. R. Cuscaden [Poem, p. 35]
- Omega Be — Miller Williams [Poem, p. 35]
- Pome — James Singer [Poem, p. 45]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 1]
- The Function of Criticism Reviewed — Peter Yates [Review, p. 10]
- Indoor Sport — Susan Blodget [Essay, p. 34]
- Editorial: In the Tense Present — Gene Frumkin [Essay, p. 46]
- Books New or Neglected: II — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 36]
- Three Kinds of Vision — Ann Stanford [Review, p. 37]
- The Lack of Individual Responsibility — James Schevill [Review, p. 39]
- A Chicago Venture — David Ray [Review, p. 41]
- Poetry of the Non-Existent City — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 43]
- Cover — Angel G. Esparza [Artwork]
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Copyright 1959 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
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The issue bears a 1959 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1959; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Coastlines*, vol. III, no. 4, Spring 1959. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.