Hugh Fox — Eye Into Now and Other Experimental Books
Hugh Fox made poetry from film, performance, visual typography, erotic montage, comparative religion, Latin American travel, and the practical labor of the small-press underground. This critical reading edition resets the five complete experimental poetry books and sequences preserved in the project archive, two complete Beyond Baroque poems, and the card poem Delayed Empathy. It does not claim to be a collected poems.
A. Fredric Franklyn — Best Always, Puerco
Poet, editor, film critic, dancer, and actor, A. Fredric Franklyn made poems whose nervous shapes move between New York memory, Hollywood, Mexico City, jazz, cinema, appetite, and mortality. Best Always, Puerco resets twenty-five verified poems from the project archive and newly recovered periodicals. The six-page title sequence is presented as live text rather than facsimile, and its damaged-gutter repairs are openly recorded.
Joseph Joel Keith — Collected Poems
A steel-town immigrant’s son became Los Angeles P.E.N.’s president and a tireless poet of children, workers, war, racial violence, stubborn roots, dark rooms, and late Hawaiian light.
James Boyer May — Collected Poems
James Boyer May made Los Angeles a switching station for the international little-magazine world.
Grover Jacoby — Collected Poems and Translations
Heir to two founding Los Angeles families and the son of poet Rosalie Seligman Jacoby, Grover Jacoby became an audacious theorist of rhythm, translator, editor, and experimenter. His poetry and prose pursue what he called fluctuant syllabic verse, linking family history, radical magazines, formal analysis, a shared Lydia Rader Billings Award, and a lifelong argument with free verse.
Hanson Kellogg — Collected Poems
Hanson Kellogg’s path ran from a scandalous interruption at the University of Michigan through marionette theatre, journalism, religious experiment, and a formally adventurous Los Angeles poetry career. His poems of variegation and recurrence test how pattern, prayer, satire, and obsession can keep changing while stubbornly returning to their sources.