Gil Orlovitz — Selected Poems
A volatile postwar experimentalist moves from sonnets and war elegies through serial personae, Hollywood, and the broken logic of modern life.
George Hugh Banning — Found in a Derelict
Born into one of Southern California’s defining maritime families, George Hugh Banning turned a youth spent before the mast, First World War aviation service, Pacific expeditions, and the history of the American West into poetry, pulp sea fiction, travel writing, and historical narrative. His 1919 collection Found in a Derelict joins sea ballads, poems of battle and flight, Californian landscapes, and an ambitious title narrative drawn from shipboard experience. This critical reading edition restores the complete book together with four poems from their 1916 periodical witnesses, preserves Loren Roberta Barton’s illustrations and the volume’s collaborative design history, and supplies a full account of Banning’s long, varied, and largely forgotten literary life.
Ethan Tane — The Wine Press
A mysterious Los Angeles writer alternates desert lyrics, music poems, love, grief, and aphorisms in a carefully designed 1936 book.
Ernest Everhart Baker — Collected Poems
A Salem lawyer’s frontier ballads and Los Angeles street lyrics, reunited across two handmade books.
Dantés — Poemas
A vanished Santa Barbara poet speaks through love songs, cemetery meditations, satire, religious visions, and a fierce dream of Spain—sixteen remarkable poems surviving under one unexplained name.
Jeff Davis Cypert (Chief Tahachee) — Poems of Dreams
The complete 1942 book behind a Hollywood actor, stuntman, poet, and contested public identity.
Charles Farwell Edson — Los Angeles: From the Sierras to the Sea
A singer and poet follows Los Angeles from Sierra waterworks through downtown streets to San Pedro.
Carl Bronson — Collected Poems
A singer and voice teacher turns musical discipline into two sweeping dramas of awakening and the soul.
Bert Meyers — Early Rain and Other Poems
A picture framer with a poet’s blade, Bert Meyers cut Los Angeles work, family, illness, desire, and light into poems whose pressure can still startle the breath.
Berthold Convers Huber — Tujunga Songs
A canyon mystic, labor poet, satirist, and formal experimenter turns Big Tujunga into a wild meeting ground for Mercury, rain, rocks, railroad men, and unruly joy.