Lola Sanblom — Collected Poems

Lola Sanblom wrote from the distance between a pioneer childhood and metropolitan Southern California. Born Lola George on a Kansas farm and raised partly on the Wyoming plains, she married young, moved to Glendale, returned to school as an adult, and published Silk Purses (1932), Buffalo Sod (1936), and the teaching handbook Every Child Can Write Poetry (1938). Her free verse makes the unprestigious materials of women’s lives—dishpans, starched dresses, livestock, children, weather, sod houses, and remembered disasters—carry questions of freedom, work, inheritance, and artistic authority. This edition restores her two poetry collections in full and adds poems securely recoverable from the later handbook.