Journal Issue
Weird gives Trace no. 46 its clearest point of entry, while That No One Is Watching! and The Simile by Marvin H. Bell widen the issue’s field. Dated Summer 1962, this substantial number indexes 29 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.
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- Weird [Contribution, p. 5]
- That No One Is Watching! [Contribution, p. 8]
- The Simile — Marvin H. Bell [Poem, p. 12]
- Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 13]
- (In Search of an Adequate Language) — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 13]
- In Round Sums — A. Fredric Franklyn [Poem, p. 20]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 21]
- To Conquer Space [Contribution, p. 21]
- Projects, Distinguished from Hobbies — Clarence VanVredenburgh [Contribution, p. 23]
- The Editorial Purgatory — David Holliday [Correspondence, p. 24]
- Blockbuster Publishing — Geoffrey Wagner [Essay, p. 28]
- The Supermarket Age — Joseph Martinek [Poem, p. 37]
- The Voice Persisted Until Death — Charles Humboldt [Essay, p. 38]
- My Father’s Head — George Abbe [Poem, p. 40]
- Tomorrow Does Not Step Lightly — Parm Mayer [Poem, p. 48]
- MAN . . . To MAN — Parm Mayer [Contribution, p. 48]
- Small-town Year, 1962 — Lawrence Barth [Contribution, p. 50]
- Rose [Contribution, p. 52]
- Epilogue [Contribution, p. 63]
- Today — Gustave Keyser [Poem, p. 64]
- Reciprocity vs. Suicide — Sam Bradley [Contribution, p. 65]
- An Experiment in Creativity — Jean Burden [Essay, p. 70]
- Of Some Presences Not Past — James Boyer May [Review, p. 81]
- ‘The Scent of Magnolias’ — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 102]
- A German on Germany and the World — Robert Lowry [Review, p. 105]
- Entirely Rational — Morgan Gibson [Poem, p. 110]
- To a Professor of Humanities — Morgan Gibson [Poem, p. 111]
- Desert Treasury of Verses Xi — Edith Schneck [Contribution, p. 112]
- To Be Whispered in the Ear of a Potential Catatonic — Thomas McEvilley, [Contribution, p. 113]
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Trace, no. 46 (Summer 1962). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.