IN THIS ISSUE: EZRA POUND, PAUL FREDERIC BOWLES, HARRY CROSBY, FRANCES ANDRE, KENNETH REXROTH, ARTHUR L. CAMPA, W. C. EMORY, DONAL McKENZIE, GEORGE ST. CLAIR, PHIL­ IPPE SOUPAULT, CHARLES HENRI FORD, JAY G. SIGMUND, GEORGES LINZE, RALPH CHEY­ NEY, NORMAN MACLEOD, DEAN B. LYMAN, JR., GLENN WARD DRESBACH, C. V. WICKER. RICHARD JOHNS, M. F. SIMPSON, CATHERINE STUART, and VAN DEUSEN CLARK. THIRTY-FIVE CENTS. AUTUMN '( '! I NOTES HARRY CROSBY is an advisory editor of transition. He lives in Paris where, with Caresse Crosby, he edits the Black Sun Press. He has published five volumes of verse, Sonnets For Caresse, Red Skeletons, (illustration by Alastair), Chariot of the Sun (introduction by D. II. Lawrence), Transit of Venus, and Mad Queen and one book of prose, Shadows of the Sun. He has contributed to Blues, transition, Exchange (Paris) and Poetry. PAUL FREDERIC :BOWLES has contributed to transition (12 and 13), Tambour (4) and This Quarter (4). He attended the University of Virginia, lived ·in Paris several months, and hiked through Switzerland and Germany. I He lives in New York. FRANCES ANDRE is a peasant of Luxembourg, who is not a professional writer but a farmer. He has published one slim volume, Peasant Poems. Con­ tinental critics have hailed him as 01ie of the most authentic forerunners of that proletarian literature which is bound to be realized shortly. KENNETH REXROTH has been published in Blues. IIe lives in San Franeiseo. ARTHUR L. CAMPA is a fellow at the University of New Mexico. He is collect­ I ing the folk-lore of Nueva Mexico. WILLIAM CLOSSON EMORY was born in Honolulu and is now living in De­ troit. His work has appeared in The Saturday Review, Poetry, transition, 'I New Masses, Palo Verde, and in transition stories, a volume recently \ published by Walter V. McKee, containing twenty-three stories from transition, selected and editeu by Eugene Jolas, and Robert Sage. A ' volume of his poetry, be still, was recently published by the Lotus Press. DONAL McKENZIE is a membre titulaire of the Societe Astronimique de France. CATHERINE STUART has appeared in Japm: The Poetry Weekly, Palo Verde, An Anthology of Alabama Poetry 1928, and is to be included in Golden Stallion. an anthology of southwestern poetry to be published shortly by The Southwest Press, Dallas. VAN DEUSEN CLARK is a student in the University of New Mexico. CHAS. HENRI FORD edits Blues, a magazine of new rhythms, at Columbus, Miss­ issippi. !EZRA POUND needs no blurb from us. With his permission we are using Kick, from Exile (4) edited by him from Rapallo, Italy. His complete works with the exception of the unfinished Cantos have been collected by Boni & Liveright and titled Personae. PHILIPPE SOUPAULT is one of the leading French novelists and poets of the diree!ly post-war generation. He is a pure Parisian, and author of many riovels and volumes of verse, several of which have been translated into English. He has contributed to transition and Broom. He was a member of the Dada movement, then founded Surrealisme with Andre Breton, but he quickly left these groups, still maintaining however, a distinctly experimental taste in all his work. GEORGES LINZE, born in Liege, Belgium in 1900, is the editor of Anthologie and the author of seven volumes of verse and prose. RALPH CHEYNEY has contributed to The Modern Quarterly, Masses, Liberator, and New Masses. He co-edits Contimporary Verse, the second oldest poe­ try magazine in America, and Unrest; The Rebel Poets Anthology. He is the author of Touch and Go (Henry Harrison, New York). NORMAN MACLEOD has contributed to New Masses (of which he is contribut­ ing editor) Tambour 4 (Paris), Blues, Birth Control Review, Contempor­ ary Verse, Poetry (Chicago), The Harp, Japm, The Frontier, Janus, Op­ portunity, and other :magazines. Among Anthologies he numbers Braith­ waite 's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1928 and 1929, Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry, Unrest (London), Golden Stallion, Ory For Pea.c~ \ THE MORADA GEORGES LINZ£ Grub Street Book of Verse, 1928, and 5 Poets (Henry Harrison, New York). :f. G. SIGMUND in his creative work comes very elose to the soil. ~e has pub· lished four volumes of verse, :Pinions, Frescoes, Land 0' Maize Folk, and COUNTRYSIDE Drowsy Ones, and one volume of ~hort stories, Wapsipinicon Tales. He has contributed to the first two American Caravans, Forge, Poetry, The Midland and The Irish Statesman. He lives in Iowa. Summer exists without lightning. DEAN B. LYMAN, Jr. has appeared in Poetry. A book of his, The Last Lutanist, Great calm. Even the motors fit into the landscape. Their noise was published by The Yale Series of Younger Poets. is a health, an optimism, a calm. What is to be done Y Sure that GLENN• WARD DRESBACH has eontributed to The Dial (now extinct), Poetry, Voices, Midland and countless magazines and anthologies. He has pub· satyrs, unoccupied workmen or bourgeois lying in wait are watch­ lished many volumes of verse, the last of which, Star-dust and Stone, ing, hidden in bushes. was issued by the Southwest Press, Dallas. His new book of poems, Tb,e Wind in the Cedars, will be published in February by Henry Holt and Is that said? Good people of the city so powerful, so full of past Co., N. Y. He has roamed the desert and mountains of New Mexico and future fear small truths. Gestures are made, affectations, etiquet­ from the Burro Mts. to Deming, and from the mining camps around Silver City to the ranches of the Gila River. tes, and life shouts, a geyser, on street-corners, in clouds, walls and C. V. WICKER is associate professor in the English Department-of the University bridges. of New Mexico. HAROLD J. SALEMSON writes directly in both languages (French and English). ,Jules and Marie Cl.'lossthe landscap,e, slowly, embraced. They He is critic of American Letters on Le Mercure de France and Pam correspondent to The Morada. He has appeared in La. Revue J:iuropeenna, are at the happy age, it seems. Eyes follow them. Birds, too, see Les Nouvelles Litteraries, Monde, Europe, Anthologie (Liege, Belgium), them, rapidly deformed. As for insects, blinded by size, they ignore :Poetry, transition (Paris), The Modern Quarterly, -Blues, and This Quarter. An article of his was translated to be the first survey of Amer­ them. The phantom of a dog has been roaming for 3 days. No one ican Letters to appear in Bulgaria. He is translating Witter Bynner into has noticed it. Only little animals have susp~cious fears. French and expects to finish two novels this year (one_ in each 1~ · guage). He lives in Paris where he edits Tambour, a review publishing The phantom of the dog has al.'lounditself a zone of apprehension. American, English and French writers in the original. Jules and Marie. MA.RY FRANCIS SIMPSON has appeared in Poet Lore, Window, and other mag· The birds. azines. She has attended Cambridge, University of Colorado, and Uni· versity of New Mexico. The satyrs. GEORGE ST. CLAIR is head of the English Dept. at the University of New ·ue:x­ The animals. ico. The phantom of the dog. There surely is the idyllic countryside. RICHARD JOHNS is editor of Paga.ny. But autos pass upon parallel roads, airplanes follow opposite h-or- izons and all unite as if to drag an irresistible net over the,country. THE MORADA The y;O'Ungfolks, arms tenderly confused. Jules feels against his Published Quarterly at Albuquerque, New Mexico hand a breast shaken by walking. EDITORIAL BOARD Today nothing else will satisfy the twinned desires. Norman Macleod ....____ ···-············--·-················---···-·--···--·····-·····--························Editor William Flynn, C. V. Wicker, Donal McKenzie. · Here is anoth1;1rday. The identical souls meet on the l,ame path. CORRESPONDENTS What is the matter? The small animals of the fields run along Sydney Hunt, London; Harold Salemson, Paris; Ralph Cheyney, Chicago; tracks. The phantom of the dog floats over the village and evapor­ Walter Barber, New York. ates. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Benjamin Musser, Joseph Vogel, Joseph Kalar, Harry Crosby, Herman Upon parting, folks remain attached by invisible exchanges. Oh ·spector, Catherine Stuart, George· W. St. Clair, Charles Henri Ford the pretty words, the pretty looks, the pretty caressess sent unknow­ and Dean B. Ly'--m_a_n___.,'--J_r_.________________ _ ingly and that turn, a c,onstellation, around lovers. NO I. 35c a copy. $1.0Q yearly A woman died. Her life like a discharge overruns the country, Editorial Office: 220 North Maple· St., Albuquerque, New Mexico · Business Office: Box 8, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M. clouds, matters, without anything adequate recognizing and under­ standing it. Solitude. Great calm. To be gotten used to. 2 3 -, ~-.- -_ . - -- - -- -: . -.-·- -- - THE MORADA WILLIAMCLOSSON EMORY Marie has taken the dee:p road full of stones, among the grass, the hammocks of the spiders. She does not know a man is following her, a prudent wild beast, that he is zigzagging through nearby fields DIMENSION 4 to place his views. Calmly. he sat there in the church. The light had the soft She is enveloped, desired, studied. DQes she even kn.ow of the heaviness of eiderdown quilts. It depressed him. Through the dimness of rapid attacks reported in papers, torn clothes, struggle, rape, flight the columned naves he could see th~ stained glass windows vivid with or crime. sunlight. The figures seemed to step out from their heavy, leaded The man, nearer. frames and swim about with the flower-drifting fragrance. People Into h~m, penetrate the insolent sun, the fullness of the thick 0 came in walking noisily to their pews and speaking in loud rustling harvests, the solitude ,o,f the moinent in which ep,ochs :mix, the forget­ whispers.