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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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Brian Kim Stefans
The expanded Hard Light is organized as six miniature selected-poem sequences. Laurence Edward Innes moves from live oak and canyon trail through desert night,…
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Snow Longley Housh, Roy Towner Thompson, Leslie Nelson Jennings
The anthology begins with Jean Baker addressing a student and ends with Jake Zeitlin’s hushed “A Whispered Song,” a span that makes its regional…
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Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Verse Writers' Club of Southern California
The Verse Writers' Club of Southern California described this 1923-1924 anthology as the product of a critic-led process: poems were presented at regular meetings,…
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Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Verse Writers’ Club of Southern California
The Verse Writers’ Club’s first anthology proceeds as a relay among members rather than as a manifesto. Belle Cooper opens with fate, vintage, flight,…
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