Jean Burden — Collected Poems
A Pasadena bus becomes a chapel, a cat grows heavy with midnight, and love flashes between stones, birds, telephone wires, and the turning seasons. Jean Burden’s exact, sly, fiercely tender poems emerge here complete—from her two books and more than fifty years of magazine verse.
William Pillin — Collected Poems
Ukrainian-born poet, WPA dissident, potter, salon host, and collaborator with Polia Pillin, William Pillin fused political history, Jewish memory, music, and the tactile intelligence of handmade objects.
Charles Foster — Collected Poems
Charles Foster left advertising after a visionary crisis and spent the final decade of his life making poems out of California roads, Tarot emblems, family feeling, political anger, peyote, jazz, sex, Catholic ritual, and the recurring figure of a world-bearing Lady. His four posthumous books have nearly vanished. This edition resets the two complete books preserved in the project archive, documents the two others, and restores the testimony of friends, editors, and family records.
Ann Stanford — Collected Poems
A California poet of fierce clarity turns gardens, freeways, family rooms, classical myth, planetary travel, and women’s buried histories into exacting poems that keep widening under pressure.
Harold Vernon Witt — Collected Poems
A librarian-sonneteer turned citrus towns, psychoanalysis, supermarkets, movies, literary classrooms, and American public speech into one of California’s funniest and most formally restless bodies of postwar poetry.
Bruce Harvey Kiskaddon — Collected Poems
Real cowboy, wartime cavalryman, Hollywood extra, and hotel bellhop, Bruce Kiskaddon became the twentieth century’s most durable cowboy poet by writing range life from hard-earned experience.
Lola Sanblom — Collected Poems
A farm child who crossed from Kansas sod houses and Wyoming winters to a Glendale bungalow turned pioneer memory, motherhood, domestic labor, and women’s self-making into some of Depression-era Southern California’s most arresting free verse.
Stuart Perkoff — Collected Poems
Stuart Perkoff made Venice West audible: its storefront rooms, beaches, prisons, drugs, arguments, lovers, Jewish memory, American violence, and moments of revelation. This edition resets the complete local texts of Alphabet, Kowboy Pomes, and Only Just Above the Ground, adds the recoverable nonduplicative poems from Love Is the Silence and The New American Poetry, preserves his stanza shapes and insets, and documents the much larger corpus that survives in books, archives, and recordings.
Jack Hirschman — A Correspondence of Americans
Before he became San Francisco’s great street poet, Jack Hirschman made Los Angeles the testing ground for a poetry of formal invention, antiwar resistance, radical translation, visual art, and public life. This edition restores his complete 1960 debut and follows the transformation through recovered Coastlines poems, periodical work, later political lyrics, and bilingual translations.
Gene Frumkin — Collected Poems
Gene Frumkin carried the political nerve and surreal humor of Los Angeles’s Coastlines circle into four decades of poems about family, the body, New Mexico, Hawai‘i, history, eros, dream, and psychoanalysis. This edition resets the complete books and independent periodical poems presently available in the project archive, preserves his visual lineation and numbered sequences, and documents the books and late poems that still await recovery.