Rose Hartwick Thorpe — Collected Poems
“Curfew Must Not Ring To-night” made her famous before she was twenty, but California gave Rose Hartwick Thorpe a second landscape: missions, poppies, sea caves, Pacific sunsets, and the bright strangeness of San Diego.
James Gowdy Clark — Collected Poems
A Civil War songwriter and “laureate of labor” found his final horizon on Mount Lowe, turning Southern California’s peaks, clouds, islands, and new electric railway into radiant late poems.
Breeze, Rita Green — Songs of the Sky-Line
Desert skies, aviation, music, and Los Angeles performance culture converge in Rita Green Breeze’s recovered poems.
Taggart, Kep — Bacon
A Los Angeles poet-philosopher-humorist turns life’s lean and fat streaks into seventy-nine comic, domestic, spiritual, and elegiac poems.
Terry, Howard L. — Sung in Silence
A Deaf poet gathers decades of travel, California landscape, home, family, ballad, and memory into a 1929 selected volume.
Frank Bernard Camp — Collected Poems
A soldier, camp reader, forester, and Alaska trail poet, Frank Bernard Camp carried the vernacular ballad from the Mexican border to First World War cantonments and the sour-dough country. This first fully reset collected edition brings together 116 distinct poems from his four complete early books, including the much-adapted “Our Hitch in Hell,” with a new biography and textual record.
Bruce Harvey Kiskaddon — Collected Poems
Real cowboy, wartime cavalryman, Hollywood extra, and hotel bellhop, Bruce Kiskaddon became the twentieth century’s most durable cowboy poet by writing range life from hard-earned experience.
Cyrus Caswell Johnson — Collected Poems
A blacksmith, soldier, scandal-plagued policeman, radio performer, marksman, preacher, and poet turned the rough machinery of Los Angeles life into songs of memory, grief, faith, and California.
Arthur Franklin Fuller — Collected Poems
Flat on his back in a handmade traveling wagon, Arthur Franklin Fuller crossed America selling his own poems and songs, turning disability, performance, self-publishing, and an iron insistence on independence into one of the strangest literary careers of early Los Angeles.
E. A. Brininstool — Collected Poems
A telephone operator talks back, coyotes howl in impossible syllables, cowboys curse the railroad and the movies, and the open range disappears in real time. E. A. Brininstool’s comic, musical West is stranger, sharper, and more self-aware than its dusty reputation suggests.