Culver, Ruby De Corsaw — The Flaming Bush

Ruby De Corsaw Culver built The Flaming Bush out of sun, silence, sand, abandoned towns, desert plants, roads, wind, moonlight, and the uneasy pull between revelation and mirage. The book’s long sequences move through Rhyolite, the Salton Sea, Palm Springs, canyons, mesas, Joshua trees, and painted sands, treating the desert as both a physical region and a pressure on belief. Culver’s life remains difficult to document securely, but the 1927 volume is large enough to stand as a career in itself. This edition resets it complete, restores its section structure, and keeps its shaped spacing and recurrent epigraph-like lines distinct from the poems.