The 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including those by Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Bukowski, Brecht and more.
In advance of the 2023 L.A. Times Festival of Books, we surveyed 95 writers and culled 110 works into the Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf. Get ready for some surprisesThe Sonoran-born poet-journalist spent four years in “the beautiful Angelo-polis,” which was an ironic designation in a particularly lurid entry in his. Bernal’s Mexicans of “Yankee-landia” were not the invaders of xenophobic caricature but victims — subject to scams, seduced into louche lifestyles, alienated from home.
wrote in a bilingual 2019 edition — “a profound forerunner and city street-news poet of a Latinx word howl to come.” — BKThe sunshine-noir dialectic, the intimations of doom in the hard light glinting across acres of traffic — the most powerful tropes of Los Angeles, before they became tropes, were all in
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