Journal Issue
Talks to G. V. Stillman by Mark Van Doren gives Trace no. 42 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by James Boyer May and Selected from Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop by Lewis Turco widen the issue’s field. Dated Summer 1961, this substantial number indexes 26 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.
Contributors
- A. Fredric Franklyn
- Gil Orlovitz
- Hugh Collins
- James Boyer May
- John Baker
- Lawrence P. Spingarn
- Lewis Turco
- Lorenzo Thomas
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- Talks to G. V. Stillman — Mark Van Doren [Interview, p. 5]
- Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 11]
- Selected from Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 17]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 18]
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Label [Contribution, p. 18]
- I’m Asking for the World — Lorenzo Thomas and Editor LOST WORLD [Contribution, p. 29]
- Selected from — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 30]
- Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 31]
- Cliches [Contribution, p. 32]
- Waiting for Beckett [Contribution, p. 33]
- I Traffic in Humans Now — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 44]
- Will Frank Marry Mary? * — Gil Orlovitz [Contribution, p. 46]
- Gil Orlovitz [Contribution, p. 61]
- Elegy for the Old Language — Walter Lowenfels [Contribution, p. 68]
- Dedication [Contribution, p. 68]
- Playback from space Controlled power [Contribution, p. 68]
- Even the ‘earth’ in rare earth is not completely descriptive [Contribution, p. 69]
- Vanity’s Losers — Hugh Collins [Contribution, p. 76]
- Hold No Parlay — Hugh Collins [Contribution, p. 76]
- Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 81]
- Signs; in this Unstoried Time [Contribution, p. 81]
- The Tyrant of Memory: Two Reviews — Lawrence P. Spingarn [Review, p. 87]
- How the Vikings’ Children Made Literature [Contribution, p. 90]
- Chiefly Nonesuch Books: A Spring Mélange [Contribution, p. 92]
- Epigrams for a Poetry Workshop — Lewis Turco [Contribution, p. 104]
- For All the Termites Toll [Contribution, p. 105]
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Trace, no. 42 (Summer 1961). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.