Carl Bronson — Collected Poems

Carl Bronson was the literary name of George Cathcart Bronson, a singer, voice teacher, choral director, insurance executive, and tireless maker of spiritual verse. Thou Shalt Waken is a book-length lyric drama built from speakers, choral argument, and seven large parts; The Temple of the Soul turns the same search inward, joining music, metaphysics, and the language of self-discipline. Bronson’s career ran through conservatories in Boston and Berlin, opera work in Chicago, the Gamut Club, Los Angeles choirs, and the city’s insurance world. This edition resets the two surviving poetry books as complete works and keeps their parts, voices, and internal headings visible.