Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Weare Holbrook’s Quid Iuvat Ornato. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “My old nose tells me you have dropped perfume”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Songs of the Wanderlust and Fashion-Show in Fairyland keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. In this Los Angeles setting, modernism appears less as a manifesto than as a widening of permissible rhythm, image, and subject within a magazine still hospitable to rhyme.
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Full contents
- Quid Iuvat Ornato — Weare Holbrook [Poem, p. 3]
- Songs of the Wanderlust — Edna Goit Brintnall [Poem, p. 4]
- Fashion-Show in Fairyland — Joy Bennett [Poem, p. 6]
- Come Home a Little While — Doris Packard [Poem, p. 7]
- Wanderer — Ethel Brooks Stillwell [Poem, p. 8]
- A Morning Walk — Ethel Brooks Stillwell [Poem, p. 9]
- Desert Interval — Emily Ferl [Poem, p. 10]
- Spring Snow — Emily Ferl [Poem, p. 10]
- Motley — E. O. James [Poem, p. 11]
- Beyond — Gertrude E. Darlow [Poem, p. 14]
- Poems of Every Day — Grace Atherton Dennen [Poem, p. 15]
- The Pomegranate Tree — Dorothy Haddox [Poem, p. 18]
- Re-Union — M. T. MacMillan [Poem, p. 19]
- Questions — Charles Hanson Towne [Poem, p. 20]
- Dreams — William C. de Mille [Poem, p. 21]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 1, no. 2, May 1921. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.