Jake Zeitlin — Collected Poems
Before Jake Zeitlin became the legendary bookseller at the center of literary Los Angeles, he was a young Texas poet encouraged by Carl Sandburg. These two rare collections reveal the lyric imagination behind the shopkeeper who connected writers, printers, photographers, artists, scientists, collectors, and rebels.
Lawrence P. Spingarn — Collected Poems
Lawrence Spingarn turned hotels, faculty rooms, freeways, old-money parlors, delicatessens, imperial ruins, and family ghosts into a five-decade comedy of manners. Teacher, painter, anthology-maker, and founder of Van Nuys’s Perivale Press, he made Los Angeles satire travel with a passport full of history.
Rupert Hughes — Collected Poems
Poet at seven, Broadway hitmaker, Hollywood director, soldier, music historian, and relentless biographer: Rupert Hughes packed several American careers into one life. His poetry moves just as fast, from classical obsession and erotic wit to war elegy, dialect comedy, California gardens, and the unnerving confession of Gyges’ Ring.
Virginia Woodson Frame Church — Collected Poems
A teacher listens as closely as she lectures. Virginia Church’s brief classroom portraits catch adolescents bluffing, grieving, flirting, reading, resisting, and going to war; her Paris poems turn the same dramatic eye on expatriates, artists, and models. This first broad recovered edition restores eighty-four verified poems, an extensively researched life, and the documentary record of a writer whose work joined education, theater, satire, and faith.
Dion O’Donnol — Collected Poems
Poet, printer, editor, translator, and relentless small-press organizer, Dion O’Donnol made books that moved from Depression-era lyricism to radical collisions of verse, advertising, color, ornament, and found paper. This reset edition gathers the conventional collections, the complete numbered sequence from Listen, No Echo, recovered periodical poems, later work from Dion, and his Bashō translation. A separately titled facsimile preserves the complete material bookworks.
Ruth Le Prade — Collected Poems
A bedridden schoolgirl became Edwin Markham’s celebrated protégé, a fearless antiwar socialist, the editor of a landmark Eugene Debs tribute, and the creator of Los Angeles’s Poets Garden—then turned private grief into a lifetime campaign for prisoners, poetry, and radical hope.
Edith Maida Sturges — Insurrection, and Other Poems
A Texas press poet became a Chicago song-trade professional, a Los Angeles relief organizer, the founder of the radical Mount Helios community, a target of obscenity prosecutions, and—in one ugly contradiction—an author of anti-Japanese propaganda. Her recovered writing makes a startling record of rebellion, commerce, care, prejudice, and conscience.
James Boyer May — Collected Poems
James Boyer May made Los Angeles a switching station for the international little-magazine world.
Myron Broomell — Collected Poems
Myron Broomell brought a historian’s reach and a satirist’s pressure to mid-century American verse.
Ruth Forbes Sherry — Collected Poems
Ruth Forbes Sherry made the Mojave speak in genes, fossils, equations, war clouds, and machines. Her fierce mid-century poems move from Dust Bowl catastrophe to the Univac computer without surrendering their belief that love, memory, and human courage remain the hardest sciences of all.