Guy Emmett Daniels Jr. — Poems and Translations
A satirist of federal poets and civil servants became one of America’s most prolific translators of Russian dissent—carrying Lermontov, Mayakovsky, Krylov, Sakharov, and the unruly Los Angeles poetry underground across languages and decades.
Alvaro Cardona-Hine — Collected Poems
A Costa Rican immigrant turned Los Angeles haiku into weather, childhood, politics, cattle, lemons, and light—then carried the same restless imagination into painting, music, translation, Zen teaching, and more than twenty books.
Paul Bradshaw Bachtell — At Lucifer’s Portals and Other Verses
A teenage desert poet grew into a satirist of gamblers, vampires, millionaires, soldiers, and the damned—then sent one last hard-boiled ballad home from an Army training camp before disappearing into law and an unwritten stage mystery.
Walter Conrad Arensberg — Collected Poems
Harvard’s class poet became New York Dada’s cryptographic trickster, Marcel Duchamp’s closest American patron, and the builder of Hollywood’s most astonishing private museum—leaving two elegant books and seven typographic detonations behind.
Bruce Boyd — Collected Poems
Bruce Boyd moved repeatedly between San Francisco, Berkeley, and Venice West, carrying the experiments of one poetry community into another. His poems turn Buddhist language, tidal landscapes, sexual candor, philosophical argument, comic montage, and intricate spatial patterning into an unusually restless body of work. This edition resets every verified poem and sequence in the project archive, documents Boyd’s surviving 1958 Poetry Center recording, and restores his life from vital records, publications, correspondence archives, and the recollections of fellow poets.
Thomas McGrath — Figures from a Double World and Other Los Angeles Poems
Blacklisted for refusing HUAC on “esthetic grounds,” Thomas McGrath turned Los Angeles into a testing ground for radical satire, war memory, erotic autobiography, and a poetry of comradeship. This edition restores the complete 1955 Figures from a Double World beside the uncollected poems and early Letter to an Imaginary Friend sequences he published while living in the city.
John Thomas — Selected Poems
John Thomas brought Baltimore argument, Venice West street life, Zen irreverence, sexual candor, historical collage, and a merciless suspicion of literary poses into poems that can turn from comedy to grief in a breath. This edition resets the complete 1976 collection Epopoeia and the Decay of Satire, the complete prose poem from Patagonia, and poems preserved in periodicals and in his late collaborations with Philomene Long. Its difficult spatial poems have been rebuilt for a six-by-nine-inch page without flattening their shifts, gaps, and countervoices.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Collected Poems
Before Herland made her famous, Charlotte Perkins Gilman turned hymns, ballads, comic fables, and biting satire into weapons against domestic confinement and political exclusion. Written partly from the hard-won freedom of her Pasadena years, these poems make social argument sing.
Henry Bedford-Jones — Collected Poems
The “King of the Pulps” was also an exacting private-press poet. This edition recovers 146 poems—forest songs, mission voices, family lyrics, translations, war verse, satire, and fiction-born ballads—from books so scarce that some survive in only a few dozen copies.
LeRoy MacLeod — Driven
Farm work, drought, inheritance, desire, and escape give LeRoy MacLeod’s Driven its severe weather. This edition restores the complete 1929 collection—including the long symphonic narrative “Drouth”—and adds the uncollected poem “The Wall” from The Lyric West. Reset from a complete public-domain scan and collated against MacLeod’s periodical appearances, it returns a nearly forgotten Indiana-born California poet to readable form.