California Poetry
Title | California Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Gioia |
Publisher | Heyday Books |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry, this ground-breaking new book presents the work of 101 authors across two centuries. California Poetry includes poets as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Yone Noguchi, Robinson Jeffers, Josephine Miles, Charles Bukowski, Ishmael Reed, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Marilyn Chin. With ample biographical and critical notes for each author, California Poetry goes beyond the limits of the ordinary anthology and provides a detailed and often intimate account of the Golden State's rich but often neglected cultural history.
Ours
Title | Ours PDF eBook |
Author | Cole Swensen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2008-04-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520254643 |
"A remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more effortless. Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and approach to the text clearly place her among the finest post-avant poets we now have."—Ron Silliman, author of The Age of Huts (compleat)
Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits
Title | Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits PDF eBook |
Author | Ella Sterling Mighels |
Publisher | |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Poetry at the Edge
Title | Poetry at the Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Stroud |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-11-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780981959764 |
Publication 233 from The Book Club of California. A poetry anthology edited and designed by Carolee Campbell of Ninja Press, letterpress printed by Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress, and featuring the poetry of Joseph Stroud, Kay Ryan, Gary Young, Martha Ronk, and Michael Hannon.
Poetry Los Angeles
Title | Poetry Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Goldstein |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2014-03-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0472120417 |
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.
Green and Gray
Title | Green and Gray PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey G. O'Brien |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2007-04-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520250192 |
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California Sorrow
Title | California Sorrow PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kinzie |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 030726680X |
A collection of poems in which twentieth-century American poet Mary Kinzie reflects upon the natural world, the damages of time, and human memory.