Anthologies and Documents
Historical anthologies, books, and documents from the literary communities of Los Angeles and Southern California.
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Poetry Anthology
Anthology of Southern California Verse
Edited by Snow Longley Housh, Roy Towner Thompson, Leslie Nelson Jennings
An editorial introduction and Colin Palmerston’s original statement precede eighty-two poems by forty-seven contributors, moving from student address and devotional lyric through desert, mountain, urban, domestic, and literary subjects to Jake Zeitlin’s “A Whispered Song.”
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Anthologies and Documents recovers books, literary collections, civic histories, bibliographies, and archival records that illuminate the writing communities of Los Angeles and Southern California.
Each item has an individual reading page with contributors, contents, publication details, citation guidance, and a searchable reader’s PDF.
16 editions are now available.
Selected Editions
Second Anthology, 1923-1924
Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Verse Writers' Club of Southern California
1923-1924 · Verse Writers’ Club Anthologies
The complete manifest identifies 167 poems by thirty-nine credited poets in the reset anthology’s reading sequence and records the original foreword, acknowledgments, contributor-organized contents, and reading-edition note.
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Mexican and South American Poems
Bilingual Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Ernest S. Green, Harriet von Lowenfels
1892 · California Poetry Anthologies
Editorial apparatus and bilingual front matter introduce rhymed translations, a large Manuel Acuña section, gatherings of Manuel Carpio and Fernando Calderón, “Mexico and Spain,” and South American poems,…
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Poetry Los Angeles I
Poetry Anthology
Edited by James Boyer May, Thomas McGrath, Peter Yates
1958 · Los Angeles Poetry Anthologies
A historical introduction and edition note precede the 1958 editors’ statement, dedication, and sixty-four poems or sequences in eighteen author sections, followed by acknowledgments, biographies, publication history, rights…
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A Collection of Verse by California Poets, from 1849 to 1915
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Augustin S. Macdonald
1914 · California Poetry Anthologies
A new edition note and introduction precede Macdonald’s preface and 105 poems divided among the Pioneer, Overland, and Present periods, followed by textual notes and an author index.
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The World of Early Chicano Poetry, 1846-1910: California Poetry, 1855-1881
Bilingual Poetry Anthology and Critical Study
Edited by Luis A. Torres
1994 · California Poetry and Cultural Documents
Volume I contains seventy-one bilingual poems arranged in eight genre groups, while Volume II supplies California social history, translation method, eight genre analyses, a conclusion, and bibliography.
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University of Southern California Poems
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Louis Wann, Allison Gaw, Roy T. Thompson
1930 · California Poetry Anthologies
The complete manifest identifies ninety-six poems by thirty-three credited poets in source order and records the original foreword, acknowledgments, biographical index, reading-edition notes, and textual apparatus.
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Books, anthologies, and the documents around them
Anthologies and Documents gathers regional poetry anthologies, literary collections, civic and cultural histories, bibliographical records, and newly prepared research editions. Read together, these works show not only what Southern California writers published, but how literary communities formed through clubs, schools, presses, newspapers, institutions, and editorial projects.
Each record identifies the original publication, the scope of the Text/Tech edition, its contributors and contents, and the source used to prepare the searchable reader’s PDF.