Hugh Fox — Eye Into Now and Other Experimental Books
Hugh Fox made poetry from film, performance, visual typography, erotic montage, comparative religion, Latin American travel, and the practical labor of the small-press underground. This critical reading edition resets the five complete experimental poetry books and sequences preserved in the project archive, two complete Beyond Baroque poems, and the card poem Delayed Empathy. It does not claim to be a collected poems.
Louise Gump — Poems
Louise Gump published Poems at nineteen under the name Jane Aul, filling it with broken rhythms, spinning colors, swaying trees, hypnotic flowers, and the restless sound of the sea. Poet, dancer, radio reader, and arts organizer, she made a small book that moves as much as it speaks.
Margaret J. Honn — Conscience
A forgotten 1925 Hollywood epic sends a failed movie actor through the afterlife with an angel—then confronts him with Peter the Hermit, the white-haired street prophet whose collie, staff, and warnings made him a living conscience for “Follywood.”
Stanley Allen Kiesel — The Pearl Is a Hardened Sinner
A kindergarten teacher with a satirist’s scalpel, Stanley Kiesel turned children’s jokes, fears, cruelties, and imaginative freedom into fierce poems aimed at parents, schools, bureaucracies, and every adult system that mistakes obedience for life.
Don Gordon — Collected Poems
Don Gordon made six books of exacting political and psychological poetry across nearly five decades, then watched a Hollywood blacklist erase the career that had supported his writing. His poems move from Depression streets and antifascist Europe through civilian war, HUAC, displacement, psychiatric wards, archaeology, aging, and nuclear dread. This edition resets all 243 poems in the six books preserved in the project archive and places them beside a newly corrected life record.
A. Fredric Franklyn — Best Always, Puerco
Poet, editor, film critic, dancer, and actor, A. Fredric Franklyn made poems whose nervous shapes move between New York memory, Hollywood, Mexico City, jazz, cinema, appetite, and mortality. Best Always, Puerco resets twenty-five verified poems from the project archive and newly recovered periodicals. The six-page title sequence is presented as live text rather than facsimile, and its damaged-gutter repairs are openly recorded.
J. William Lloyd — Collected Poems
A frontier doctor, anarchist publisher, nature mystic, free-love theorist, and inveterate traveler sings hospital wards, erotic freedom, Pima country, Atlantic storms, English birds, Walt Whitman, and the strange exhilaration of a life deliberately lived outside the ordinary rules.
Wesley La Violette — The Bhagavad Gita: An Immortal Song
Composer, teacher, religious writer, and quiet architect of West Coast jazz, Wesley La Violette brought a musician’s sense of recurring lines to his 1945 Bhagavad Gita. He called the book an interpretation rather than a translation: Sanskrit names largely disappear, Krishna is identified with Christ, and the dialogue becomes nearly two hundred pages of stepped English verse. This edition resets the complete prologue and all eighteen chapters, preserving the first edition’s lineation, stanza openings, internal headings, three levels of indentation, and exact distinction among self, Self, and SELF. A substantial biography reunites La Violette’s Chicago modernism, Los Angeles mysticism, and long influence on Jimmy Giuffre, Shorty Rogers, John Graas, and Frank Patchen.
Salvatore Cutino — Symphonic Poems
Salvatore Cutino carried Palermo’s literary culture into the immigrant cities of the United States and answered Whitman, music, machinery, religious vision, and wartime catastrophe in an English he called part of a developing “Neo-American idiom.” This edition resets all twenty-three verse works in the expanded 1947 Symphonic Poems, preserves their stepped structures and epigraphs, and adds a substantially researched account of Cutino’s bilingual career from Sicily to New York and Southern California.
Alfred Hardin Frederick — You’ve Never Lived in Hollywood
Alfred Hardin Frederick’s only known book looks at 1920s Hollywood from the crowded side of the studio gate. Its thirty-five poems follow extras, stunt performers, child actors, broke hopefuls, publicity men, featured players, and Poverty Row producers through a city where talent matters less than attention and danger belongs to somebody else. The verse is comic, topical, theatrical, and unusually alert to the labor behind the dream factory. This critical reading edition resets the complete 1926 collection as live text, preserves its stanza divisions, dialogues, refrains, indents, and deliberate oddities, and supplies a full biography, bibliography, textual note, and selective archival section.