Edwin Rolfe — Brickyards at Beacon and Other Poems
A subway digger, Spanish Civil War volunteer, Hollywood exile, and relentless anti-fascist forged poems in the pressure chamber where friendship, conscience, politics, and survival collide.
Bertolt Brecht — Hollywood Elegies
Exiled in Santa Monica while Europe burned, Bertolt Brecht turned pepper trees, oil derricks, swimming pools, movie labor, irrigated gardens, fighter planes, and the commerce of the dream factory into a compact poetry of paradise and hell. This reset bilingual edition distinguishes his six-poem manuscript sequence from Hanns Eisler’s song cycle and gathers the principal English translations and related California poems with full source notes.
Replansky, Naomi — Collected Poems
A poet of working life, Jewish memory, radical history, aging, and love compresses a century’s pressures into unforgettable songs.
Don Gordon — Collected Poems
Don Gordon made six books of exacting political and psychological poetry across nearly five decades, then watched a Hollywood blacklist erase the career that had supported his writing. His poems move from Depression streets and antifascist Europe through civilian war, HUAC, displacement, psychiatric wards, archaeology, aging, and nuclear dread. This edition resets all 243 poems in the six books preserved in the project archive and places them beside a newly corrected life record.
Thomas McGrath — Figures from a Double World and Other Los Angeles Poems
Blacklisted for refusing HUAC on “esthetic grounds,” Thomas McGrath turned Los Angeles into a testing ground for radical satire, war memory, erotic autobiography, and a poetry of comradeship. This edition restores the complete 1955 Figures from a Double World beside the uncollected poems and early Letter to an Imaginary Friend sequences he published while living in the city.