Extremes and Moderations: A Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Brian Kim Stefans
The sixteen-poem Hard Light opens with four tightly different kinds of pressure in Helen Hunt Jackson: railroad danger, historical endurance, sacrificial ritual, and an…
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Literary Anthology and Documentary Collection
Compiled by Ella Sterling Mighels
Ella Sterling Mighels organizes Literary California as a calendar rather than a conventional anthology. Each month becomes a crowded cabinet of poems, newspaper extracts,…
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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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