THE TEXT/TECH PAPERS

CATALOGUE

The Catalogue provides the primary historical structure of Extremes and Moderations. Each volume is assigned one principal place within a sequence of literary formations, while the separate Associations system connects writers across periods through publications, institutions, movements, intellectual currents, and local literary networks.

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Pioneer Los Angeles & Early Print

Early Southern California poetry in newspapers, civic print culture, pioneer memory, and nineteenth-century literary institutions.

Land of Sunshine & Out West

The regional literary culture organized around magazines, booster-era institutions, and the turn-of-the-century Southern California renaissance.

Reform, Labor & Radical Print

Poetry connected to Progressive reform, suffrage, labor, socialism, anti-imperialism, and politically engaged print culture.

Poetry Clubs & Civic Culture

Poetry circulating through clubs, newspapers, commemorative occasions, civic organizations, and the public literary culture of metropolitan Los Angeles.

Metaphysical and Devotional Los Angeles

Religious, mystical, metaphysical, occult, and comparative-spiritual traditions within Southern California poetry.

Independent Los Angeles Modernisms

Modernist and experimental writing developing through independent Los Angeles networks outside any single institutional or magazine lineage.

Asian American and Transpacific Poetry

Asian American, immigrant, diasporic, translated, and transpacific poetic formations centered in Southern California.

Interwar and Postwar Regional Lyric

Regional lyric poetry spanning the interwar and early postwar decades, including formal, landscape, civic, and personal modes.

Poets in Hollywood

Poets whose literary lives intersected significantly with film, screenwriting, studios, performance, or Hollywood cultural production.

Desert, Mission, and Inland California

Poetry shaped by Southern California deserts, missions, inland communities, borderlands, ecology, and regional historical imagination.

Los Angeles Private Press and Book Arts

Poetry connected to fine printing, bookselling, private presses, typography, visual culture, and the material arts of the book.

Black Los Angeles Literary Culture

Black Los Angeles poetry understood through newspapers, schools, civic institutions, literary networks, and cultural institution building.

The Los Angeles Left in the McCarthy Era

Poetry shaped by the literary left, labor politics, anti-fascism, HUAC, blacklisting, civil liberties, and McCarthy-era repression.

California Quarterly, Coastlines, and Poetry Los Angeles

The postwar Los Angeles poetry network associated with California Quarterly, Coastlines, Poetry Los Angeles, and related editors and circles.

Postwar Poetry & Academic Life

Postwar poetry shaped by universities, colleges, workshops, teaching, libraries, mentorship, and literary institutional life.

Independent Little Magazines

Later independent little-magazine formations and experimental editorial networks associated with Trace, Variegation, Recurrence, and adjacent projects.

Venice West and the New American Poetry

Venice West, Beat, and New American Poetry networks, including small presses, performance, counterculture, and postwar experimental poetics.