Dion O’Donnol — Collected Poems
Dion O'Donnol—born Arthur Francis Faulconer in eastern Washington—moved through radio poetry, hand printing, wartime publishing, experimental book design, translation, and haiku during a career that lasted more than six decades. In West Los Angeles he founded Wagon & Star Press, printed Carlos Bulosan and other emerging writers, edited poetry columns and chapbook series, and issued six collections of his own before 1951. Listen, No Echo placed fragmented poems over advertisements torn from Life, on colored stocks, and among antique ornaments, making each copy a variable bookwork years before Pop and concrete poetry became recognized movements. O'Donnol later translated Rimbaud and Bashō, edited the magazine Dion, and returned in old age with the haiku calendars daily walk and Day Breaks. This edition resets the poems from his conventional books and the complete numbered sequence from Listen, No Echo, then adds a recovered newspaper poem, three contributions—including a haiku—from Dion, and his old-pond translation. The independent visual poems and complete book objects remain available in the companion facsimile edition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
O'Donnol, Dion [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. Eggs in a Blue Bowl. Wagon & Star, 1937. 101 pp.; illustrated. Colophon states a limitation of 350 copies.
———. Bright Singing Hour. Wagon & Star Publishers, 1942. Copyright registered 13 Apr. 1942.
——— [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. Many a Fragile Thing. Foreword by Clifford Gessler. Silver Bough Books. Wagon and Star Publishers in collaboration with Harvey Parker and Craftsmen, 1942.
———, editor. Destiny Editions: A Series of Contemporary Poets. Twelve chapbooks. Wagon & Star, 1944.
——— [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. Listen, No Echo: Poems. Wagon & Star Press, 1949. 86 numbered pages; variant states incorporating overprinted commercial-magazine leaves.
———. The Silver Bough and Other Sonnets. 1950.
———. Banquets of Hunger: Some Early Poems of Arthur Rimbaud in English Translation. Dragon Press of George William Shaw and Wagon & Star Publishers, 1962. 35 pp.; stated edition of 100 copies.
———, editor. Dion. No. 1. Wagon & Star Publishers, 1963. Includes “Genesis of Love,” a morning-glory haiku, and “Sweet Rose of Cimarron.”
——— [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. Translation of Matsuo Bashō's old-pond haiku. One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English, edited by Hiroaki Sato. Weatherhill, 1983.
——— [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. daily walk: a haiku year. Wagon & Star Publishers, 1998. 110 pp.; spiral-bound calendar.
———. Day Breaks: A Haiku Year 2000 Calendar Haiku Book. Wagon & Star Publishers, 2000.
———. “Bright Mosaic.” Poetry column. West Los Angeles Independent, 14 Jan. 1938–18 Dec. 1942; continued under Georgia Nicholson/Nicholas during O’Donnol’s absence, 2 Apr. 1943–26 Oct. 1945.
———, editor. Path of Beauty. Poetry newspaper. Wagon & Star Foundation. Vol. 2, no. 5, Nov. 1938, is held by Princeton University.
——— [copyrighted as Arthur Adrian Faulconer]. “Epitaph Requested by a Poet,” “Modern Ate to an Unwilling Adonis,” “Minor Portrait,” “Old Diary,” “Rain,” “Profile of an Afternoon,” “Address to a City,” “On That Hill,” “The Road,” and “Song of Cain.” Individual newspaper and little-magazine publication data remain to be fully normalized.
———. Collected Poems. A Reset Critical Edition with Companion Facsimile. Edited by Brian Kim Stefans. The Text-Tech Papers, 2026.
Akogare, Toko-Natsu [Dion O'Donnol]. Blades of Breath. Wagon & Star, 1942.
Bulosan, Carlos, editor. Chorus for America: Six Philippine Poets. Introduction by Dion O'Donnol. Wagon and Star Publishers in collaboration with Harvey Parker and Craftsmen, 1942.