Henri Coulette — The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems
Secret agents, old movies, family ghosts, graveyards, cats, and lethal wit crowd Henri Coulette’s immaculate forms. This edition restores the two audacious books he published in his lifetime—the prizewinning The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems and the nearly vanished The Family Goldschmitt.
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.
Lawrence P. Spingarn — Collected Poems
Lawrence Spingarn turned hotels, faculty rooms, freeways, old-money parlors, delicatessens, imperial ruins, and family ghosts into a five-decade comedy of manners. Teacher, painter, anthology-maker, and founder of Van Nuys’s Perivale Press, he made Los Angeles satire travel with a passport full of history.
Myron Broomell — Collected Poems
Myron Broomell brought a historian’s reach and a satirist’s pressure to mid-century American verse.
C. F. MacIntyre — Collected Poems
A Los Angeles poet who became a Parisian bohemian and one of America’s boldest translators, C. F. MacIntyre wrote jaguars, cafés, cathedrals, war, eros, and mortality into poems whose polished surfaces barely contain their appetite and mischief.