Hildegarde Flanner — Young Girl and Later Poems
Hildegarde Flanner wrote across nearly seven decades, moving from the brilliant, myth-haunted lyrics of her Berkeley years to poems shaped by Southern California streets, machines, deserts, fires, gardens, and threatened open land. Time’s Profile gathered the work that first made her nationally visible; If There Is Time placed her in James Laughlin’s New Directions series during the Second World War; In Native Light returned to western landscape in collaboration with her husband, the architect and engraver Frederick Monhoff. Her late poems could be comic, apocalyptic, ecological, familial, and startlingly experimental. This edition resets the seven substantial poetry witnesses now available in the archive, keeping each book as its own chronological section and retaining repeated poems when Flanner herself republished or revised them. It preserves lineation, stanza divisions, subtitles, dedications, and sequence while removing page furniture, scan noise, and unmistakable OCR damage. The one-act play Mansions and the prose essays in At the Gentle Mercy of Plants are documented but not folded into the poetry text.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
Flanner, Hildegarde. Young Girl and Other Poems. H. S. Crocker, 1920.
———. Mansions: A Play in One Act. Stewart & Kidd, 1920.
———. This Morning. Frank Shay, 1921.
———. A Tree in Bloom and Other Verses. J. Daniel, 1924.
———. Valley Quail. Ward Ritchie Press, 1929.
———. Time’s Profile. Macmillan, 1929.
———. If There Is Time. New Directions, 1942.
———. In Native Light. Privately printed, 1970.
———. The Hearkening Eye. Ahsahta Press, 1979.
———. “Atlantis Rises,” “The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postcript,” “Just Between You and Me,” and “A.P.T.W.H.B.A.” Anthology 81. Ikuta Press, 1981.
———. Brief Cherishing: A Napa Valley Harvest. 1982.
———. At the Gentle Mercy of Plants: Essays and Poems. John Daniel, 1986.
———. Different Images: Portraits of Remembered People. 1987.
———. Poems Collected and Selected. John Daniel, 1988. Foreword by Janet Lewis.