PAGANY A NATIVE QUARTERLY by Pagany - 1931

Boston, 1931. Volume two, number one (of twelve issues published). Printed wrappers. A few stray marks to wrappers, a few patches of soiling; near very good. Edited by Richard Johns. A representative and characteristic number of this distinctive American periodical, among the very best of its era. In launching Pagany, Johns sought the support and editorial assistance of William Carlos Williams, inviting him to become a co-editor and contributor, and although Williams declined the former official function, he granted permission for Johns to use "Pagany" as the title of the magazine (derived from Williams's 1928 novel, A VOYAGE TO PAGANY) and contributed mightily, including the "manifesto" that opens the first issue. Johns provided an explanation of the magazine's title in the first issue: "Pagus is a broad term, meaning any sort of collection of peoples from the smallest district or village to the country as an inclusive whole. Taking America as pagus, any one of us as the paganus, the inhabitant, and our conceptions, our agreements and disagreements, our ideas, ideals, whatever we have to articulate is pagany, our expression." (A RETURN TO PAGANY, p.50). Contributors to this number include Atget, Butts, Caldwell, Dahlberg, Hugnet, Macleod, McAlmon, Pound, Stein, Thoma, Williams, Zukofgsky, et al. WALLACE C156. GALLUP (POUND) C796. WILSON C89. HOFFMAN, et al, p. 297.