Lovell Bearse Pemberton — Collected Poems
Poet, electrical pioneer, railway inventor, architect, and pilgrim to Palestine, Lovell Bearse Pemberton moved between mythic drama and the machinery of modern Southern California. His verse turns Sappho, Prometheus, skyscraping church spires, atoms, streetcars, and the Grand Canyon into one restless argument about freedom, science, beauty, and fate.
Frona Lane — Collected Poems
Frona Lane reinvented herself across newspaper verse, radio, teaching, performance, and a remarkable trio of California poetry books. Her work can be playful, erotic, devotional, surreal, or formally jagged, moving from Apples of Gold through Third Eyelid to the startling late experiments of Worm, Feed Gently.