Sadakichi Hartmann — Southern California Poems and Fragments
Hartmann was never truly a Los Angeles poet—but a handful of late poems and fragments catch his brief Hollywood orbit and long, strange afterlife beneath San Jacinto.
Ruby De Corsaw Culver — The Flaming Bush
A book-length journey through Rhyolite, Salton Sea, moonlit canyons, mirage, and desert revelation.
Rita Green Breeze — Songs of the Sky-Line
Desert skies, aviation, music, and Los Angeles performance culture converge in Rita Green Breeze’s recovered poems.
Naomi Replansky — Collected Poems
A poet of working life, Jewish memory, radical history, aging, and love compresses a century’s pressures into unforgettable songs.
Morio Hayashida — Six Poems
An Issei newspaper writer and gardener turns alienation, illness, memory, and Los Angeles light into six fierce, dreamlike poems rescued across language and time.
Margaret Lancaster — The Kingdom of Silences
A mysterious Los Angeles writer compresses devotion into sparks: hills, clay, tears, desert, birds, silence, and the patient work of remaking the self.
Madge Morris Wagner — Collected Poems
She climbed San Jose’s electric tower to write, helped inspire a new Liberty Bell, edited a legendary western magazine, and found her fiercest language in the desert heat.
Louis F. Curtis — Story and Song
A California educator’s sweeping book of Norse story, Christian legend, romance, faith, and song.
Louise Marny Muller — Collected Poems
Two rare Santa Barbara books recover a poet of California gardens, mountains, civic hope, private love, and spiritual search.
Laurence Edward Innes — Collected Poems
Live oaks, orange groves, Christmas sunlight, desert roads, Hollywood custard pies, and one stunned moment at the Grand Canyon: a brisk little archive of 1921 California.