Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, California, bookstore daliel's (stylized with a lowercase 'd'), it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the San Francisco Renaissance.[1] In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller (a personal friend of Leite's).[2]
Issue contents and covers edit
Number one, 1944 edit
- Henry Miller – Open Letter to Small Magazines
- Philip Lamantia – Two Poems
- Bern Porter – You're No Dope: Let Me Save You
- Jeanne McGahey – Street With People
- Rosalie Moore – Poem In 2 Scenes
- George Elliott – The Red Battery
- George Leite – Toward A Technique Of Rule
- Josephine Miles – Four Poems
- Joseph Van Auker – Pirandello In Chains
- Lawrence Hart – The Map Of The Country
Number two, 1944 edit
- Henry Miller – To Anaïs Nin Regarding One Of Her Books
- Glen Coffield – Two Poems
- William Everson – Two War Elegies
- R. H. Barlow – Four Poems
- Bern Porter – Letter To Gabene
- W. Edwin Ver Becke – Four Line Prints
- C.F. MacIntyre – Rilke And The Lost God
- Dean Jeffries – Three Poems
- William Carlos Williams – To The Dean
- George Leite – To Henry Miller
- Philip Lamantia – Two Poems
- Shaemus Keilty – Quinquin
Number three, 1944 edit
- Harry Hershkowitz – The Bulbul Birds
- Kenneth Patchen – Four Poems
- W. Edwin Ver Becke – The Father
- Yvan Goll – Histoire De Parmenia L'Havanaise
- Thomas Parkinson – Morning Passage
- George Elliott – Two Poems
- Douglas MacAgy – Palimpsest
- Pvt. Leonard Wolf – Two Poems
- Hamilton Tyler – Mr. Eliot And Mr. Milton
- Jackson Burke – Poem
- Pvt. J. C. Crews – Poem
- M. Wheelan Grote – First Impression Of College
- Lt (jg) Hubert Creekmore – Two Poems
- Marie Wells – Two Poems
- Lawrence Hart – About Marie Wells
- Robert Lottick – Poem
- Wendel Anderson – Poem
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Number four, 1944 edit
- Anaïs Nin – The All-Seeing
- Theodore Schroeder – Where Is Obscenity?
- Arthur Ginzel – Four
- Walter Fowlie – The Two Creators
- George Leite – Low Darkened Shelter
- Henry Miller – Varda: The Master Builder
- Lee Ver Duft – Poems
- Herbert Cahoon – Marley And The Gemini
- Lt. Joseph Stanley Pennell – Two Poems
- Bern Porter – All Over The Place
- James Franklin Lewis – To John Wheelwright
- Forrest Anderson – Sea Poems
- Warren d'Azevedo – Deep Six For Danny
- Lt. Robert L. Dark – Two poems
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Number five, 1945 edit
- Weldon Kees – The Purcells
- E. E. Cummings – Five Poems
- Dane Rudhyar – Neptune, Evocator Extraordinary
- Jess Cloud – Three Portraits
- Henri Hell – Max Jacob
- Douglas MacAgy – Clay Spohn's War Machines
- Henry Miller – Preface For The Power Within Us
- Aline Musyl – Four Little Poems
- Albert Clements – Rain
- Alfred Young Fisher – Voltas For Fugues
- George Leite & Bern Porter – Photo-poems
- Frederic Ramsey, Jr. – Artist's Life
- Nicholas Moore – A Poem & A Story
- Marguerite Martin – First Pity
- Paul Radin – Journey Of The Soul
- Max Harris – Two Poems
Number six, 1945 edit
- Lawrence Hart – Some Elements Of Active Poetry
- Rosalie Moore – Letter To Camp Orford, Poem In Two Scenes, text
- R. H. Barlow – Framed Portent, Table Set For Sea Slime, text
- Marie Wells – Death At Noon, Monody In One, text
- Jeanne McGahey – Road To Chicago, text
- Alfred Morang – Darling Sister And The Pound Of Liver
- Haldeen Brady - Whirl
- Henry Miller – Knud Merrild: A Holiday In Paint
- Robert Barlow – Tepuzteca, Tepehua
- James Laughlin – Poem In 38 Lines
- Thomas Parkinson – John Works On A Figure Of Virginia, Carving It
- Harry Roskolenko – Return, The Expert
- Eugene Gramm – A Gallery Of Americans
- Maude Phelps Hutchins – Soliloquy At Dinner
- Alex Comfort – The Soldiers
- William Pillin – My Reply As A Jew
- Leonora Carrington – Flannel Night Shirt
- Richard O. Moore – Villanelle 1, Villanelle 2
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Numbers seven and eight, 1946 edit
- Robert Duncan – The Years As Catches
- Ian Hugo – Two Block Prints
- Anaïs Nin – Hedja
- Hamilton Tyler – Finnegan Epic
- Bern Porter – Map Of Joyce's Life
- Lindley Williams Hubbell Jacques Vache
- Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
- Thomas Hughes Ingle – Tattooed Sailor
- Kenneth O. Hanson – Falstaff And The Chinese Poet
- Douglas MacAgy – Without Horizon
- James McCray – Four Paintings
- Yvan Goll – The Magic Circle
- Brewster Ghiselin – Concert In Dorse
- Charlotte Marletto – Oblique Epitome
- A. M. Klein – In Memoriam
- Thomas Parkinson – Letter To A Young Lady
- Howard O'Hagan – The Colony
- Edmund de Coligny – The Poem Of The Two Oscars
- Robert Barlow – Angel Hernandez, Artist
- George Leite & Bern Porter – Two Photo-poems
- Edwin Ver Becke – A Line Drawing And A Story, The Tryst
- Gil Orovitz – Flamenco
- Shaun FitzSimon – Easter Bells
- Roger Pryor Dodge – A Non-esthetic Basis For The Dance
- Alex Austin – Civilization
- Oscar Williams – The Lemmings
- Paul Radin – Three Conversions
- Osmond Beckwith – Fire Sale
- Warren D' Azevedo – Blue Peter
- Darius Milhaud – French Music Between Two Wars
- George Barrows – Creative Photography
- W. S. Graham – Three Poems
- Eithene Wilkins – Two Poems
- Jack Jones – A Story, A Poem
- Samuel Holmes – The Death Of An Innocent
- James Steel Smith – Murder And Complacency
- Georges Henein – There Are No Pointless Jests
- Martin H. Mack – It All Depends On How You Want It
- David Cornel DeJong – Three Poems
- Henry Miller – Three Books Tangent To Circle
Number nine, 1946 edit
- Bezalel Schatz – Cover art
- Lawrence Durrell – Eight Aspects Of Melissa
- Gerald Burke – Essay On Children
- Richard O. Moore – A History Primer
- Jim Fitzsimmons – Four Experimental Nudes
- David Stuart – The Inflammable Angel Kezia
- C. F. MacIntyre – The Ars Poetica Of Paul Valery
- William Everson – The Release
- A. Seixas – Ellwood Graham
- George Leite – The Wing: The Mirror
- Alexis Comfort – Taras And The Snowfield
- Walker Winslow – NP Ward
- Hilaire Hiler – Manifesto Of Psychromatic Design
- Harold Norse – Three Poems
- Robert Wosniak – The Man In The Cape
- Robert Stock – Triumphal Arch
- Ericka Braun – Oath Of The Tennis Court
- Max Harris – Revolutionary Poem
- Mary Fabilli – The Memorable Hospital
- Will Gibson – Poem For Three
- Selwyn Schwartz – Four Poems
- Ernst Kaiser – The Development From Surrealism
- Richard Lyons – A Note To Kenneth Patchen
- Byron Vazakas – Two Poems
- Henry Miller – Rimbaud Opus (Part Two)
- Harry Roskolenko – PR, The Portable Review
Number ten, 1948 edit
- John Whitney & James Whitney – Audio-Visual Music
- Joseph Stanley Pennell – Logistics
- Mary Fabilli – The Boss
- Giuseppe Ungaretti – Eight Poems
- Antony Borrow – The Great Refusal
- Douglas MacAgy – A Margin Of Chaos
- Charles Howard – The Bride
- Harry Partch – Show-horses In The Concert Ring
- Robert Barlow – The Malinche Of Acacingo
- Alex Comfort – Two Enemies Of Society
- D. Rentis – Forward
- Attile Joseph – Two Poems
- Clarisse Blazek – Poet In Hungary
- George Elliott – Story
- Luis J. Trinkaus – Eight Inches Of Snow
- Kendrick Smithyman – Legends Of The Gunner And His Girl
- Warren D'Azevedo – Shuttle
- Robert Duncan – Toward An African Elegy
- Jody Scott & George Leite — Admission of Fission
References edit
- ^ Davidson, Michael (1991). The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5.
- ^ Brady, Mildred (April 1947). "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy". Harper's Magazine.
External links edit
- Circle History, from Jean Varda's ferryboat's website