Muller, Louise Marny — Collected Poems
Two rare Santa Barbara books recover a poet of California gardens, mountains, civic hope, private love, and spiritual search.
Joan LaBombard — Collected Poems
A nearly vanished California poet makes sprinklers, marbles, a remembered Ohio street, and the rituals of childhood glow with exact, unforced wonder.
Wilde, Irene — Driftwood Fires
A journalist, librarian, juror, prizewinning poet, and novelist arranges love and loss into Flame, Embers, and Ashes.
Jean Burden — Collected Poems
A Pasadena bus becomes a chapel, a cat grows heavy with midnight, and love flashes between stones, birds, telephone wires, and the turning seasons. Jean Burden’s exact, sly, fiercely tender poems emerge here complete—from her two books and more than fifty years of magazine verse.
Lola Sanblom — Collected Poems
A farm child who crossed from Kansas sod houses and Wyoming winters to a Glendale bungalow turned pioneer memory, motherhood, domestic labor, and women’s self-making into some of Depression-era Southern California’s most arresting free verse.
LeRoy MacLeod — Driven
Farm work, drought, inheritance, desire, and escape give LeRoy MacLeod’s Driven its severe weather. This edition restores the complete 1929 collection—including the long symphonic narrative “Drouth”—and adds the uncollected poem “The Wall” from The Lyric West. Reset from a complete public-domain scan and collated against MacLeod’s periodical appearances, it returns a nearly forgotten Indiana-born California poet to readable form.
Bernice Ames — Where the Light Bends and Later Poems
The complete texts of Bernice Ames’s three poetry books—Where the Light Bends (1955), In Syllables of Stars (1958), and Antelope Bread (1966)—joined by later periodical poems, archival images, a corrected publication record, and the fullest documented biography yet assembled of the Pennsylvania-born Los Angeles poet, fiction writer, workshop leader, and Poetry Society of America prizewinner.
Donald L. Emblen — There Are Sea Gulls on Our Lawn and Later Poems
The complete forty-six-poem text of Donald L. Emblen’s 1947 first book, There Are Sea Gulls on Our Lawn, reset from the original scan and joined by six independently recovered later poems, photographs, family testimony, a reconstructed bibliography, and a full account of his life as poet, teacher, sailor, journalist, translator, hand-press publisher, and Sonoma County’s first poet laureate.
Ruth Forbes Sherry — Collected Poems
Ruth Forbes Sherry made the Mojave speak in genes, fossils, equations, war clouds, and machines. Her fierce mid-century poems move from Dust Bowl catastrophe to the Univac computer without surrendering their belief that love, memory, and human courage remain the hardest sciences of all.