Jennie Kiefer — Collected Poems
A Wisconsin-born Los Angeles poet turns meadowlarks, moonlight, Pacific surf, motorcars, civic monuments, and the catastrophe of modern war into a poetry of restless public address. This edition restores Jennie Kiefer’s complete first book and every new or meaningfully revised poem in her rare 1923 collection.
Josephine Ain — Aspects and Other Poems
The fullest recoverable collection of Josephine Ain’s poetry: the five-part “Aspects,” her three major Coastlines poems, “Seven Haiku,” the late “When From the Night,” and “Patience,” published under her birth name in 1935. The edition joins the poems to an exhaustive biography, publication history, archival images, source notes, and a record of Ain’s work as an artist, actor, salon host, spiritual seeker, and participant in early Los Angeles psychedelic culture.
Charles Fletcher Lummis — Collected Poems
He walked across a continent, built a stone castle, battled federal policy, founded a museum, ran a library, and turned the Southwest into a lifelong poem.
Carlos Bulosan — Collected Poems
Carlos Bulosan wrote from the migrant camp, the hospital room, the union hall, and the imagined battlefield. This edition restores twenty-nine works from original witnesses: fourteen poems published in Poetry between 1936 and 1942, the five-poem sequence from Chorus for America, and the complete Voice of Bataan. An extensive biography follows his disputed birth record, 1930 passage to Seattle, West Coast labor and literary networks, wartime fame, federal surveillance, Local 37 work, final Seattle years, and posthumous recovery.
Arthur Orison Dillon — Collected Poems
A judge, booster, genealogist, lost-love mystic, and one-man publishing empire turns Southern California civic life—its hopes, griefs, prejudices, and ambitions—into hundreds of poems.
Joseph Joel Keith — Collected Poems
A steel-town immigrant’s son became Los Angeles P.E.N.’s president and a tireless poet of children, workers, war, racial violence, stubborn roots, dark rooms, and late Hawaiian light.
Grace Atherton Dennen — Recovered Poems
Grace Atherton Dennen was a teacher, novelist, club organizer, editor of The Ebell, and founder of The Lyric West. Her recovered poetry is as varied as that career: dramatic monologue, suffrage comedy, Pacific history, domestic memory, agricultural labor, scientific nightmare, Western narrative, flowers, music, faith, and mortality. This volume replaces the old six-poem file with the fullest text-based collection the current archive supports.
Cyrus Caswell Johnson — Collected Poems
A blacksmith, soldier, scandal-plagued policeman, radio performer, marksman, preacher, and poet turned the rough machinery of Los Angeles life into songs of memory, grief, faith, and California.
Rosalie S. Jacoby — Kaleidoscope and Later Poems
Rosalie S. Jacoby’s Kaleidoscope moves from Los Angeles streets, libraries, theater, sculpture, dispossession, marriage, and literary work into the close observational world of children’s rooms, games, fears, jokes, and questions. This edition resets the complete two-part 1926 book and adds four spare later poems recovered from Variegation, extending her known poetry through 1950.
Robinson Jeffers — Early Poetry
Before Robinson Jeffers became the poet of Tor House, Point Lobos, and the long granite coast, he published two largely forgotten books and then, in 1924, the collection that changed his career. Early Poetry resets all of Flagons and Apples, Californians, and the first-edition sequence of Tamar and Other Poems, tracing his movement from formal love lyrics through Southern California narratives to the fierce, long-lined poetry of Carmel.