Summary
The Glebe was a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray from 1913 to 1914. The first issue was published from Grantwood, New Jersey while the rest of the run was published in New York by Albert & Charles Boni. Ten issues were produced, with a circulation of 300.[1] Issue number 5 comprised the first anthology of Imagism: Des Imagistes.[2]
Issues and Contributors edit
Vol. 1, No. 1 - September 1913 - Adolf Wolff: Songs, Sighs and Curses (collected poems).[3]
Vol. 1, No. 2 - October 1913 - Wallace E. Baker: Diary of a Suicide (diary).[4]
Vol. 1, No. 3 - December 1913 - Charles Demuth: The Azure Adder (play).
Vol. 1, No. 4 - January 1914 - Leonid Andreyev: Love of One's Neighbor (play, translated by Thomas Seltzer)
Vol. 1, No. 5 - February 1914 - Ezra Pound (editor): Des Imagistes: An Anthology (poetry by 11 authors)
Vol. 1, No. 6 - March 1914 - Alfred Kreymborg: Erna Vitek (novel).
Vol. 2, No. 1 - April 1914 - Horace L. Traubel: Collects (essays).[5]
Vol. 2, No. 2 - September 1914 - George W. Cronyn: Poems [6]
Vol. 2, No. 3 - October 1914 - Frank Wedekind: Erdgeist (Earth Spirit; play in verse translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.).
Vol. 2. No. 4 - November 1914 - Frank Wedekind: Pandora's Box (play in verse translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.).
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Forum Davidson: Little Magazines & Modernism; The Glebe Archived 2011-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Glebe was reissued in 1967 by Kraus Reprint, New York, using the collections of the New York Public Library.
- ^ Belgian born Adolf Wolff (1883-1944) was an anarchist and sculptor. A further collection Songs of Rebellion, Songs of Life, Songs of Love, was published by Alfred & Charles Boni in 1914.
- ^ Wallace Baker sent his diary to Russell Herts, who published the magazine The International, before committing suicide at Manhattan Beach, New York (September, 1913).
- ^ Walt Whitman scholar Horace Traubel wrote a Collect column for his monthly magazine The Conservator (1890-1919).
- ^ In 1918 Boni & Liveright published The Path of the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America. Edited by George W. Croyn, with Introduction by Mary Austin.
- Suzanne Churchill: Making Space for Others: A History of a Modernist Little Magazine. In: Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 22, No. 1, 1998, p. 53, note 26.
- Jay Bochner: The Glebe. In: Edward E. Chielens (editor): American Literary Magazines, pp. 135–139.
- The Glebe archive at Blue Mountain Project