Coastlines, Vol. VI, No. 1–2 (1964)

Journal Issue

How Would You Like It If You Looked Like an Unfried Doughnut? gives this issue its argumentative center, with Barding Dahl setting the terms. The fiction—Mary Wituya by Lachlan MacDonald; You Muckle Head…! by Raymond Barrio; Chori’s House by Ramon Sepulveda—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 Number XVI from The Flesh of Utopia and Kaddish, shifting between grouped poems and single lyrics rather than settling into one house style. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Notice of Discontinuation, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions.

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Publication details

Journal: Coastlines
Volume: VI
Issue number: 1–2
Issue date: 1964
Editor: See publication details in scan
Publisher: Coastlines Literary Magazine
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 90 PDF pages. Reader's edition: 91 PDF pages.
Record ID: coastlines-v6-n1-2-1964

Full contents

Mary Wituya — Lachlan MacDonald [Fiction, p. 18]
You Muckle Head…! — Raymond Barrio [Fiction, p. 39]
Chori’s House — Ramon Sepulveda [Fiction, p. 58]
Number XVI from The Flesh of Utopia — Alvaro Cardona-Hine [Poem, p. 11]
Bruno in Venice West — Lawrence Lipton [Poem, p. 12]
Report from Evanston — Mel Weisburd [Poem, p. 13]
When from the Night — Josephine Ain [Poem, p. 14]
Star, Proxy Venus — Peter Yates [Poem, p. 15]
Fire Cat — Sanora Babb [Poem, p. 15]
Foot-Loose & Fancy-Bound — James Boyer May [Poem, p. 16]
See (?) Story — James Boyer May [Poem, p. 17]
Cocktails — Charles Gullans [Poem, p. 21]
The Sidewalks of Verue — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 22]
Lesbos Revisited — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 23]
The Lady with a Taste for Fiction — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 24]
My Sister Lies in California — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 25]
The Fortune Teller — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 26]
The Tattooed Man — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 27]
The Knife Thrower’s Wife — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 28]
The Girl on the High Wire — Barbara Harris [Poem, p. 29]
Upon Listening to Symphony Music While Drunk — Charles Bukowski [Poem, p. 30]
Everything — Charles Bukowski [Poem, p. 31]
Intruder — Helen Sorrells [Poem, p. 33]
The Bird Cries Me — Helen Sorrells [Poem, p. 33]
For the Knickerbocker Child — Helen Sorrells [Poem, p. 34]
The Neighbor — Helen Sorrells [Poem, p. 35]
Out of Eden — Helen Sorrells [Poem, p. 36]
On the Ferris-Wheel — Merrill Sparks [Poem, p. 37]
The Grammarian: Parts of Speech — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Poem, p. 38]
November Day — Jack Hirschman [Poem, p. 45]
The Dead Spot — Jack Hirschman [Poem, p. 46]
The Explorer — Priscilla Shames [Poem, p. 48]
Tune for a Fearful Lute — Gene Frumkin [Poem, p. 49]
The View — Gene Frumkin [Poem, p. 50]
As Well Write an Ode to Delfin — Paul Cordell [Poem, p. 51]
The Watts Towers — Eleanor Edelstein [Poem, p. 52]
Spy in the Distance — Joan White [Poem, p. 53]
Habits — A. Fredric Franklyn [Poem, p. 55]
The Burning Glass — Ann Stanford [Poem, p. 55]
Isadora — William Pillin [Poem, p. 56]
Kaddish — William Pillin [Poem, p. 57]
How Would You Like It If You Looked Like an Unfried Doughnut? — Barding Dahl [Editorial, p. 2]
Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 8]
Moved On — Alexandra Garrett [Editorial, p. 82]
Notice of Discontinuation [Editorial, p. 84]
Complete List of Coastlines Contributors [Index, p. 85]
Cover — Earl Newman [Artwork]

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The issue bears a 1964 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1964; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Coastlines*, vol. VI, no. 1–2, 1964. Text/Tech Journals, digital facsimile.

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