Extremes and Moderations: A Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Louis Wann, Allison Gaw, Roy T. Thompson
Prepared for the University of Southern California's fiftieth anniversary, this 1930 collection prints ninety-six poems by thirty-three current and former students. Its editors call…
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Grove Brown
Manual Arts High School’s alumni made this 1922 anthology from eleven years of student writing, and its forty-nine poems retain the exploratory energy of…
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Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Delilah L. Beasley
These twenty-three poems were dispersed through Delilah L. Beasley’s The Negro Trail Blazers of California, where verse participates in the history rather than decorating…
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Augustin S. Macdonald
Augustin S. Macdonald arranges 105 poems into “Pioneer,” “Overland,” and “Present” periods, turning chronology into a theory of California poetry. The first group favors…
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Bilingual Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Ernest S. Green, Harriet von Lowenfels
Ernest S. Green and Harriet von Lowenfels organize this anthology as an exercise in comparative reading: Spanish poems and English versions follow one another…
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Poetry Anthology
Compiled by May Wentworth
May Wentworth's 1867 anthology answers the narrowness of Bret Harte's Outcroppings through scale: 143 poems by seventy-five contributors, assembled as a record of Pacific…
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