Louise Gump — Poems
Louise Gump wrote as if poems could dance. At nineteen, using the name Jane Aul, she published Poems, a small book of waves, wind, reeds, broken music, flashing colors, and abrupt emotional turns. The style makes more sense once the rest of her life comes into view: she taught creative and East Indian dance in Los Angeles, read poems on Long Beach radio, led the Poetry Society of Southern California, and later owned an art gallery. Her changing names—Gump, Aul, Gambill, Rosha—nearly broke that career into unrelated pieces. This edition puts it back together, resetting all seventeen poems from the 1931 book and the two witty newspaper verses she published in 1957. The result is a compact portrait of a writer whose poetry was always listening for movement.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
Aul, Jane [Louise Gump]. Poems. Columbia Art Studios, 1931.
———. “Lotus.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3 July 1930, p. 6.
Gambill, Louise. “[Calories Are a Sneaky Lot].” “Verseside.” Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 1957, p. 2.
———. “[In Praise of Walking?].” “Verseside.” Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1957, p. 2.