Journal Issue
The Non-Existent City gives this issue its argumentative center, with Lachlan MacDonald setting the terms. The fiction—Big Auntie by Genevieve Davis; The Wake and the Deal by Ramon Sepulveda; The Death of the Flying Mule by Zack Walsh—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 Five Poems and La Brea Pits, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into The Beating of Wings, 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.
Contributors
- Genevieve Davis
- Ramon Sepulveda
- Zack Walsh
- Gil Orlovitz
- Bert Meyers
- Thomas McGrath
- Robert Eskew
- William Pillin
More contributors (26)
- Mary Graham Lund
- Robert Vaughan
- Mel Weisburd
- Tom Viertel
- Ann Stanford
- Carl Larsen
- Donald J. Young
- Alvaro Cardona-Hine
- Charles Bukowski
- Sidney Gershgoren
- Jill Marx
- Paul Cordell
- Estelle Gershgoren
- Peter Yates
- Curtis Zahn
- Vahan K. Gregory
- Josephine Ain
- Gene Frumkin
- Stanley Kiesel
- Louis Hill
- Lachlan MacDonald
- Barding Dahl
- George Betar
- David Seidman
- Thomas M. Livingston
- Milton Gershgoren
Publication details
Full contents
- Big Auntie — Genevieve Davis [Fiction, p. 5]
- The Wake and the Deal — Ramon Sepulveda [Fiction, p. 8]
- The Death of the Flying Mule — Zack Walsh [Fiction, p. 11]
- The Cover — Gil Orlovitz [Fiction, p. 16]
- Five Poems — Bert Meyers [Poem, p. 36]
- From Letter to an Imaginary Friend — Thomas McGrath [Poem, p. 39]
- Three Poems — Robert Eskew [Poem, p. 42]
- Poem — William Pillin [Poem, p. 44]
- At the Bus Stop — Mary Graham Lund [Poem, p. 45]
- On This Corner — Robert Vaughan [Poem, p. 45]
- Poem — Mel Weisburd [Poem, p. 46]
- Poem — Tom Viertel [Poem, p. 48]
- Poem — Ann Stanford [Poem, p. 49]
- Two Poems — Carl Larsen [Poem, p. 50]
- At the Right Time — Donald J. Young [Poem, p. 52]
- Vindication — Alvaro Cardona-Hine [Poem, p. 52]
- Three Poems — Charles Bukowski [Poem, p. 54]
- Two Poems — Sidney Gershgoren [Poem, p. 56]
- Two Poems — Jill Marx [Poem, p. 58]
- Two Poems — Paul Cordell [Poem, p. 59]
- Legend — Estelle Gershgoren [Poem, p. 60]
- Variations for a Quiet Clavichord — Peter Yates [Poem, p. 61]
- Early Girl — Curtis Zahn [Poem, p. 62]
- Two Poems — Vahan K. Gregory [Poem, p. 63]
- Three Poems — Josephine Ain [Poem, p. 64]
- The Clue — Gene Frumkin [Poem, p. 65]
- Two Poems — Stanley Kiesel [Poem, p. 69]
- La Brea Pits — Louis Hill [Poem, p. 72]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- The Non-Existent City — Lachlan MacDonald [Essay, p. 3]
- The Bird in the Hand Groweth Exceeding Small — Barding Dahl [Essay, p. 73]
- A Birthday Editorial — Gene Frumkin [Editorial, p. 87]
- Books New or Neglected: III — Lachlan MacDonald [Review, p. 80]
- The Inner Drama — George Betar [Review, p. 81]
- Design and Depth — David Seidman [Review, p. 83]
- Out of the World — Donald J. Young [Review, p. 84]
- Abstract Wings — Thomas M. Livingston [Review, p. 85]
- The Beating of Wings — Barding Dahl [Review, p. 86]
- Cover — Milton Gershgoren [Artwork]
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Copyright 1960 by the issue publisher or named copyright holder.
Copyright Status Unresolved
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*Coastlines*, vol. IV, no. 2–3, Spring 1960. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.