Caroline Reynolds — Collected Poems and Selected Dramatic Reviews
A young Los Angeles poet becomes one of the city’s most observant weekly theater critics, moving between California roads and gardens, intimate dramatic lyrics, and sharp judgments of Bernhardt, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Belasco, and the local stage.
Pauline B. Barrington — Collected Poems and Literary Reviews
An antiwar poet and early Los Angeles modernist moves from city streets and Southern California landscapes to sharp encounters with the new poetry of H.D., Moore, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Lawrence, and Cummings.
Yda Hillis Addis — Collected Poems
A teenage Los Angeles poet became a border-crossing journalist, translator, folklorist, and one of the strangest missing-person stories in American letters. These poems recover the astonishing beginning of that life.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe — Collected Poems
“Curfew Must Not Ring To-night” made her famous before she was twenty, but California gave Rose Hartwick Thorpe a second landscape: missions, poppies, sea caves, Pacific sunsets, and the bright strangeness of San Diego.
Mary C. F. Hall-Wood — Sea-Leaves
She edited a Santa Barbara newspaper, taught herself the machinery of print, and turned the Pacific, the mountains, wildflowers, missions, drought, and civic life into one of Southern California’s earliest substantial books of poetry.
Madeleine Ruthven — Mountain Fire and Other Poems
Madeleine Ruthven wrote from both sides of Hollywood: inside the studios as a screenwriter and outside them as a poet of institutions, city pressure, mountain fire, and hard-won solitude. These five verified poems recover the surviving edge of two rare Primavera Press books and her later work in Poetry without pretending that the unavailable books have been collected.
Lucile Nickerson Colyer — Thy Neighbor
Lucile Colyer turned a voyage to Japan, the sudden death of her husband, and the friendship that carried her through grief into a book-length protest against wartime racial hatred. Written in plain blank verse, Thy Neighbor follows Japanese and Japanese American friends through war, removal, incarceration, and resettlement from the perspective of a Los Angeles woman who tried to help them.
James Gowdy Clark — Collected Poems
A Civil War songwriter and “laureate of labor” found his final horizon on Mount Lowe, turning Southern California’s peaks, clouds, islands, and new electric railway into radiant late poems.
Henri Coulette — The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems
Secret agents, old movies, family ghosts, graveyards, cats, and lethal wit crowd Henri Coulette’s immaculate forms. This edition restores the two audacious books he published in his lifetime—the prizewinning The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems and the nearly vanished The Family Goldschmitt.
Edwin Rolfe — Brickyards at Beacon and Other Poems
A subway digger, Spanish Civil War volunteer, Hollywood exile, and relentless anti-fascist forged poems in the pressure chamber where friendship, conscience, politics, and survival collide.