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Bear Flag Republic

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Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Greenhouse Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bear Flag Republic written by Christopher Buckley and published by Greenhouse Review Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC features poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Morton Marcus, Czeslaw Milosz, Luis Omar Salinas, David St. John, Joseph Stroud, Amy Uyematsu, Diane Wakoski, Charles Wright, and Al Young, among many others. This great anthology also includes twenty-two essays from poets, including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Mark Jarman, Diane Wakoski, Charles Harper Webb, and more. "Speaking is natural; writing is not. Prose and poetry will forever combine and recombine to express what utterly needs to be told"--Al Young. "A prose poem has the shape of water; it spreads out. Some poems are that expansive, that open and fluid, and their shape needs to reflect their nature..."--Marsha de la O.

Western Practice

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Author : Stephen Motika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882295913
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Western Practice written by Stephen Motika and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut collection radiates post-WWII California art scene cool as Motika obsesses artfully on the likes of Diebenkorn and Partch.

California's Wild Edge

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Author : Tom Killion
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597142991
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book California's Wild Edge written by Tom Killion and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Sierra of California and Tamalpais Walking are close to 25,000 in print this volume will draw readers to the wilder shores of our coast and the Pacific Ocean

Inter State

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Author : José Vadi
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766963
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Inter State written by José Vadi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by José Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. Inter State explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. Amidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, Inter State excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state.

Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California

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Author : Patrick James Dunagan
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890520
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California written by Patrick James Dunagan and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Roots and Routes' gathers essays, talks, interviews, statements, notes, and other prose writings by poets who studied and/or taught at the New College of California’s Masters in Poetics program over the course of its nearly 30-year existence. The collection evokes a much-needed anti-hierarchical, even anarchic, pedagogy in poetry, poetics, and the literary arts, and is part of a general reevaluation of standard higher education models on Creative Writing. As such it will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars interested in America’s recent literary history, as well as to poets outside the academy and the general reader interested in US poetry and poetics.

Writing the Silences

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Author : Richard O. Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262433
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Silences written by Richard O. Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry by filmmaker and public radio and television producer Richard O. Moore, who is also associated with the San Francisco Renaissance poets, a pre-Beat Generation literary movement.

Robert Duncan

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Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520324862
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of Gérard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.

The Fire Eater

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Author : Jose Hernandez Diaz
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680032097
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Fire Eater written by Jose Hernandez Diaz and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz’s masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Hernandez Diaz’s startling and spare style. With nods to Russell Edson and the surrealists, Hernandez Diaz explores the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life, set against the backdrop of the moon, and the poet’s native Los Angeles. The TRP Chapbook Series

Returning the Gift

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Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816514861
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Returning the Gift written by Joseph Bruchac and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992. The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history. "Returning the Gift," observes co-organizer Joseph Bruchac, "both demonstrated and validated our literature and our devotion to it, not just to the public, but to ourselves." In compiling this volume, Bruchac invited every writer who attended the festival to submit new, unpublished work; he then selected the best of the more than 200 submissions to create a collection that includes established writers like Duane Niatum, Simon Ortiz, Lance Henson, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, and Jeanette Armstrong, and also introduces such lesser-known or new voices as Tracy Bonneau, Jeanetta Calhoun, Kim Blaeser, and Chris Fleet. The anthology includes works from every corner of the continent, representing a wide range of tribal affiliations, languages, and cultures. By taking their peoples' literature back to them in the form of stories and songs, these writers see themselves as returning the gift of storytelling, culture, and continuance to the source from which it came. In addition to contributions by 92 writers are two introductory chapters: Joseph Bruchac comments on the current state of Native literature and the significance of the festival, and Geary Hobson traces the evolution of the event itself.

Recite and Refuse

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Author : Nick Admussen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824856554
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Recite and Refuse written by Nick Admussen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese prose poetry today is engaged with a series of questions that are fundamental to the modern Chinese language: What is prose? What is it good for? How should it look and sound? Millions of Chinese readers encounter prose poetry every year, both in the most official of state-sponsored magazines and in the unorthodox, experimental work of the avant-garde. Recite and Refuse makes the answers to our questions about prose legible by translating, surveying, and interpreting prose poems, and by studying the people, politics, and contexts that surround the writing of prose poetry. Author Nick Admussen argues that unlike most genres, Chinese prose poems lack a distinct size or shape. Their similarity to other prose is the result of a distinct process in which a prose form is recited with some kind of meaningful difference—an imitation that refuses to fully resemble its source. This makes prose poetry a protean, ever-changing group of works, channeling the language of science, journalism, Communist Party politics, advertisements, and much more. The poems look vastly different as products, but are made with a similar process. Focusing on the composition process allows Admussen to rewrite the standard history of prose poetry, finding its origins not in 1918 but in the obedient socialist prose poetry of the 1950s. Recite and Refuse places the work of state-sponsored writers in mutual relationship to prose poems by unorthodox and avant-garde poets, from cadre writers like Ke Lan and Guo Feng to the border-crossing intellectual and poet Liu Zaifu to experimental artists such as Ouyang Jianghe and Xi Chuan. The volume features never-before seen English translations that range from the representative to the exceptional, culminating with Ouyang Jianghe’s masterpiece “Hanging Coffin.” Reading across the spectrum enables us to see the way that artists interact with each other, how they compete and cooperate, and how their interactions, as well as their creations, continuously reinvent both poetry and prose.

What Poets Are Like

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Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570618755
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book What Poets Are Like written by Gary Soto and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Soto is a widely published author of children's and young adult fiction, and he is an acclaimed poet--often referred to as one of the nation's first Chicano poets. With a sharp sense of storytelling and a sly wit, What Poets Are Like is a memoir of the writing life that shares the keen observation, sense of self and humor of such writers as Sherman Alexie and Nora Ephron. In some 60 short episodes, this book captures moments of a writer's inner and public life, close moments with friends and strangers, occasional reminders of a poet's generally low place in the cultural hierarchy; time spent with cats; the curious work of writing. He tells the stories of his time spent in bookstores and recounts the glorious, then tragic, arc of Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley, ending with the author whose scheduled event fell on the day after the business shut down, but who stood outside the locked door and read aloud just the same. As all writers do, Soto suffers the slings and arrows of rejection, often from unnamed Midwest poetry journals, and seeks the solace of a friendly dog at such moments. Soto jabs at the crumbs of reward available to writers--a prize nomination here, a magazine interview there--and notes the toll they take on a frail ego. The pleasure Soto takes in the written word, a dose of comic relief plus his appreciation of the decisive moment in life make this an engaging and readable writer's confession.

The Literature of California, Volume 1

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Author : Jack Hicks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520222121
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of California, Volume 1 written by Jack Hicks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.

The Coast of California

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Author : Tom Killion
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879237677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Coast of California written by Tom Killion and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodcuts capture the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica.

A Bird Black as the Sun

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Author : Enid Osborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615536323
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book A Bird Black as the Sun written by Enid Osborn and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this diverse anthology, over 80 poets of the Golden State hold forth on the theme of crows and ravens offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, and ever-surprising views of these common birds that live among us, but retain their mystery. Herein lies a lively exploration of the dark muse: proof that these paradoxical birds, called "black as the sun" by Gary Snyder, continue to fascinate, and are busier than ever strutting, flying, perching, preening, and disturbing the peace of poets with their raucous noise.

A. Sutzkever

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Author : Abraham Sutzkever
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520065390
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book A. Sutzkever written by Abraham Sutzkever and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry and prose relates the author's thoughts on God, nature, love, war, and childhood memories

Highway 99

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Author : Stan Yogi
Publisher : Great Valley Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Highway 99 written by Stan Yogi and published by Great Valley Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the myths of the Yokuts Indians, to stories and poems by famous contemporary writers, this anthology showcases the best literature of Californias Great Central Valley, and provides a rich view of the regions physical and emotional landscape

Contemporary American Poetry

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities UNCATALOGED TXB.