Eve Ganson — Horn, Thorn, Tooth and Claw
Eve Ganson drew the desert as a comic cast of survivors: roadrunner, rattlesnake, toad, owl, burro, bat, and every creature equipped with horn, thorn, tooth, or claw. This hybrid edition restores her complete fifty-three-poem sequence twice—first as a cleaned facsimile of the illustrated pages, then as a fully reset reading text.
Cheney, William M. — Pamphlet on the Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin
Los Angeles’s legendary typesticker turns Pig Latin into a complete miniature mock-scholarly performance.
Caldwell, William Mackay — Pan’s Reeds
A formally restless 1915 Los Angeles book where reeds, sonnets, prayers, and desert light meet.
William J. Margolis — The Anteroom of Hell and The Eucalyptus Poems
A stevedore, printer, and fiercely independent little-magazine editor, William J. Margolis made poems that turn political terror, wounded intimacy, jazz, mysticism, and the stubborn life of California trees into an unruly art of survival.
Thomas J. McGonigle — Dark Donegal and Other Poems
A Donegal-born railroad worker and Los Angeles civic employee turns exile, Irish freedom, California travel, family devotion, political satire, and ordinary friendship into a lifetime’s rough music.
Stanley Preston Kimmel — Collected Poems
A Los Angeles law student became a Verdun ambulance driver, shipwreck survivor, Paris bohemian, coalfield dramatist, and historian—leaving war poems whose anger still cuts cleanly.
Snow Longley Housh — Sonnets of Spinsterhood and Other Poems
A Los Angeles teacher made unmarried female desire the center of a sonnet sequence—and then helped generations of teenagers discover that poetry could be written, not merely admired.
Smith, Sarah Bixby — My Sagebrush Garden and Pasear
A California ranch heiress, civic reformer, gardener, memoirist, and poet records a landscape changing under her feet.
Sadakichi Hartmann — Southern California Poems and Fragments
Hartmann was never truly a Los Angeles poet—but a handful of late poems and fragments catch his brief Hollywood orbit and long, strange afterlife beneath San Jacinto.
Culver, Ruby De Corsaw — The Flaming Bush
A book-length journey through Rhyolite, Salton Sea, moonlit canyons, mirage, and desert revelation.