Neeta Marquis — Collected Poems
Neeta Marquis carried the landscapes of Southern California into nearly every form she practiced: lyric poetry, newspaper reporting, art criticism, history, fiction, teaching, and opera. Born in Westminster in 1877, she grew from an Out West poet of flowers, fog, and missions into a central participant in Los Angeles literary and musical networks, then into the spare experimental poet heard in Variegation and Recurrence. No independent poetry book has been located. This edition therefore gathers her recoverable verse from periodicals and anthologies, restores its stanzas, lineation, italics, and intentional indents from the original pages, and follows a career that remained active for almost half a century.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
Marquis, Neeta. “Fog.” Out West, vol. 22, Mar. 1905, p. 180.
———. “An Adobe Ruin.” Out West, vol. 23, July 1905, p. 40.
———. “The Faithless One.” Out West, vol. 24, Apr. 1906, p. 289.
———. “Poinsettias.” Out West, vol. 26, Jan. 1907, p. 22.
———. “Sunset.” Out West, vol. 26, Jan. 1907, p. 72.
———. “April Baptism.” Out West, vol. 26, Apr. 1907, p. 326.
———. “Youth in Spring.” Out West, vol. 26, June 1907, p. 536.
———. “Night-Fall.” Out West, vol. 27, Aug. 1907, p. 175.
———. “To a Gold-of-Ophir Rose.” Out West, vol. 28, May 1908, p. 366.
———. “At Twilight.” Sunset (Mar. 1909); reprinted in The Graphic, 3 Apr. 1909, p. 5.
———. “A Memory.” Out West, vol. 31, Nov. 1909, p. 876.
———. “November Poplars.” Out West, vol. 32, Feb. 1910, p. 140.
———. “Joy.” Out West, vol. 32, Mar. 1910, p. 191.
———. “Interracial Amity in Los Angeles: Personal Observations on the Life of the Japanese in Los Angeles.” The Independent, 1913.
———. “The Flower Stall.” Out West, vol. 38, new ser., vol. 6, July–Dec. 1913, p. 236.
———. “Jack Wilkinson Smith.” The International Studio, vol. 69, Dec. 1919, pp. lxxiv–lxxvi.
———. “Homage to the Sonnets from the Portuguese.” Homage to Robert Browning, edited by Aleph Tanner. Aleph Tanner, 1920, p. 74.
———. “Laguna: Art Colony of the Southwest.” The International Studio, vol. 70, no. 276, Mar. 1920, pp. xxvi–xxvii.
———. “Violets for Sentiment.” Short Stories, Sept. 1920, p. 65.
———. “Jack Wilkinson Smith, California Artist.” Arrowhead, Mar. 1923, pp. 8–9.
———. “Rain at Night.” Continent’s End: An Anthology of Contemporary California Poets, edited by George Sterling, Genevieve Taggard, and James Rorty. Printed for the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1925, p. 166.
———. “A Tour through a Great Modern Plant and a Glimpse into the Stupendous Development of the Mechanical and Business Side of Our Educational System.” Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1928.
———. “Wild Mustard.” Anthology of Southern California Verse, edited by Snow Longley Housh, Roy Towner Thompson, and Leslie N. Jennings. Primavera Press, 1930, p. 46.
———. Los Rubios. Opera libretto; music by Mary Carr Moore. Performed in Los Angeles, Sept. 1931.
———. Contribution to Land of Gold (Tierra de Oro): An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by California Writers, edited by James Neill Northe, Herald-Silhouettes Press, 1934.
———. Immanuel and the Fifty Years, 1888–1938. Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 1938.
———. “Hybrid.” Poetry Society Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, 1938, p. 11.
———. “Bafflement,” “White Petunias,” and “Sibelius Symphony.” Look to This Day. Poetry Society of Southern California, 1944.
———. “‘Seraphim.’” Variegation, vol. 3, no. 3, summer 1948, p. 18.
———. “As the Dropping of Water.” Variegation, vol. 3, no. 4, autumn 1948, p. 16.
———. “Rhythmic Line.” Recurrence, vol. 13, summer 1953, p. 9.
Poems in The Lyric West, 1921–27.