Caldwell, William Mackay — Pan’s Reeds
A formally restless 1915 Los Angeles book where reeds, sonnets, prayers, and desert light meet.
Stanley Preston Kimmel — Collected Poems
A Los Angeles law student became a Verdun ambulance driver, shipwreck survivor, Paris bohemian, coalfield dramatist, and historian—leaving war poems whose anger still cuts cleanly.
Tane, Ethan — The Wine Press
A mysterious Los Angeles writer alternates desert lyrics, music poems, love, grief, and aphorisms in a carefully designed 1936 book.
Louise Gump — Poems
Louise Gump published Poems at nineteen under the name Jane Aul, filling it with broken rhythms, spinning colors, swaying trees, hypnotic flowers, and the restless sound of the sea. Poet, dancer, radio reader, and arts organizer, she made a small book that moves as much as it speaks.
Salvatore Cutino — Symphonic Poems
Salvatore Cutino carried Palermo’s literary culture into the immigrant cities of the United States and answered Whitman, music, machinery, religious vision, and wartime catastrophe in an English he called part of a developing “Neo-American idiom.” This edition resets all twenty-three verse works in the expanded 1947 Symphonic Poems, preserves their stepped structures and epigraphs, and adds a substantially researched account of Cutino’s bilingual career from Sicily to New York and Southern California.
Walter Conrad Arensberg — Collected Poems
Harvard’s class poet became New York Dada’s cryptographic trickster, Marcel Duchamp’s closest American patron, and the builder of Hollywood’s most astonishing private museum—leaving two elegant books and seven typographic detonations behind.
Robinson Jeffers — Early Poetry
Before Robinson Jeffers became the poet of Tor House, Point Lobos, and the long granite coast, he published two largely forgotten books and then, in 1924, the collection that changed his career. Early Poetry resets all of Flagons and Apples, Californians, and the first-edition sequence of Tamar and Other Poems, tracing his movement from formal love lyrics through Southern California narratives to the fierce, long-lined poetry of Carmel.
Hildegarde Flanner — Young Girl and Later Poems
A newly reset reading edition of Hildegarde Flanner’s major poetry books and surviving late groups: the complete Young Girl and Other Poems (1920), This Morning (1921), Time’s Profile (1929), the 1942 New Directions pamphlet If There Is Time, the privately printed In Native Light (1970), four poems from Anthology 81 (1981), and the poetry section of At the Gentle Mercy of Plants (1986), accompanied by archival images, an extensive biography, bibliographies, and a guide to her dispersed papers.
Adolphe Danziger de Castro — Collected Poems
A multilingual Jewish writer, diplomat, lawyer, Bierce collaborator, Lovecraft client, and Los Angeles fabulist moves from rose lyrics and wartime verse to sprawling biblical romances—while the facts of his nearly century-long life compete with the legends he made of it.
Lovell Bearse Pemberton — Collected Poems
Poet, electrical pioneer, railway inventor, architect, and pilgrim to Palestine, Lovell Bearse Pemberton moved between mythic drama and the machinery of modern Southern California. His verse turns Sappho, Prometheus, skyscraping church spires, atoms, streetcars, and the Grand Canyon into one restless argument about freedom, science, beauty, and fate.