Greenberg, Jack — Hear Ye the Court

Jack Greenberg’s Hear Ye the Court is not a miscellaneous collection but a single dramatic poem that puts law itself on trial. Its voices move through infanticide, execution, press power, political corruption, class justice, religion, youth, and the Dust Bowl before reaching a deliberately provisional dawn. Published in Los Angeles by Parker & Baird in 1939, the book belongs to the city’s radical legal and social writing, though Greenberg’s own life remains hard to separate from namesakes. This edition resets the complete poem, keeps its numbered cases and internal speakers clear, and restores the argument as a continuous performance.