Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State ed. Gerald Haslam (University of Nevada Press, March 1999, 0-874-17325-6, $20.00, 424pp, tp, an)
Second revised edition. Contents from Amazon.com.
- · Introduction · Gerald Haslam · in (r)
- · Californios · Richard Henry Dana · ss (r)
- · Life at the Mines · Louisa Smith Clapp · ss (r)
- · Joaquin · John Rollin Ridge · ss (r)
- · The Society Upon the Stanislaus · Bret Harte · pm San Francisco Newsletter September 26 1868, as “Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Smith’s Crossing”
- · Dickens in Camp · Bret Harte · pm Overland Monthly July 1879
- · Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn · Samuel Clemens · ex from A Tramp Abroad, as by Mark Twain, American Publishing Company, 1880, as by Mark Twain; chapter 3.
- · The Bubble Reputation · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wasp May 8 1886
- · South of the Slot · Jack London · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 22 1909
- · Shootout · Frank Norris · ss (r)
- · The California Poppy · Ina Coolbrith · ss (r)
- · Dead in the Sierras · Joaquin Miller · ss (r)
- · The Man with the Hoe · Edwin Markham · pm McClure’s Magazine May 1899
- · Slant-Eyed Americans · Toshio Mori · ss (r)
- · Sheep-Shearing Time · Helen Hunt Jackson · ss (r)
- · Out There Where Men Are Men · Harry Leon Wilson · ss (r)
- · Land of Boyhood · Lawrence Clark Powell · ss (r)
- · Noon on Alameda Street · Hildegarde Flanner · ss (r)
- · The Snake at Shingle Springs · Hildegarde Flanner · ss (r)
- · In the First Person · Ross Macdonald · ss (r)
- · Guggenheim’s Water Tower, Fresno, 1921 · William Saroyan · ss (r)
- · The Squatters’ Camps · John Steinbeck · ar San Francisco News October 6 1936
- · The Residual Years · William Everson · ss (r)
- · Muscat Pruning · William Everson · ss (r)
- · Winter Plowing · William Everson · ss (r)
- · The Watch · Arnold Rojas · ss (r)
- · The Range of Light · John Muir · ex from The Mountains of California, Century Company, 1894
- · My Neighbor’s Field · Mary Hunter Austin · ss (r)
- · Vulture · Robinson Jeffers · ss (r)
- · Autumn Evening · Robinson Jeffers · ss (r)
- · Hurt Hawks · Robinson Jeffers · ss (r)
- · An Island Called California · Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo · ss (r)
- · Facing West from California’s Shores · Walt Whitman · ss (r)
- · Adore · Nathanael West · ss (r)
- · A Supermarket in California · Allen Ginsberg · pm Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, 1956
- · Dharma Bums · Jack Kerouac · ss (r)
- · Dog · Lawrence Ferlinghetti · ss (r)
- · Spring Rain · Kenneth Rexroth · ss (r)
- · My Mother Would Be a Falconress · Robert Duncan · ss (r)
- · I Have Folded My Sorrows · Bob Kaufman · ss (r)
- · Marin-An · Gary Snyder · pm (r)
- · Above Pate Valley · Gary Snyder · pm Riprap by Gary Snyder, Origin Press, 1959
- · Hay for the Horses · Gary Snyder · pm (r)
- · The Opium of the People · Carolyn See · ss (r)
- · On the Coast Near Sausalito · Robert Hass · pm Field Guide by Robert Hass, Yale University Press, 1973
- · Palo Alto: The Marshes · Robert Hass · pm (r)
- · Los Angeles Notebook · Joan Didion · ss (r)
- · To Sergie My Sweet Old Dog Who Died in Old Age · Floyd Salas · ss (r)
- · Wyoming Is an Indian Name · Floyd Salas · ss (r)
- · The American Father · Maxine Hong Kingston · ss China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
- · Dealing with the Whole Child · Cyra McFadden · ss (r)
- · Crop Dusting · Leonard Nathan · ss (r)
- · Fields in Light · Leonard Nathan · ss (r)
- · Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning · Wallace Stegner · ss (r)
- · Letter from a Friend in Monterey · Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel · ss (r)
- · Dead Valley Town · Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel · ss (r)
- · Sleeping in a Truck · Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel · ss (r)
- · My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali · Hisaye Yamamoto · ss (r)
- · Weightlifting · Gerald Locklin · ss (r)
- · The Best Year of Her Life · Gerald Locklin · ss (r)
- · Happy Hour · Gerald Locklin · ss (r)
- · Soldado Razo · Luis Valdez · ss (r)
- · The Screamer · Wanda Coleman · ss (r)
- · The Tomato Field · Leonard Gardner · ss (r)
- · Thinking Like a Kid · Gary Soto · ss (r)
- · Magnets · Gary Soto · ss (r)
- · A Red Palm · Gary Soto · ss (r)
- · Wilderness Fire · Gina Berriault · ss (r)
- · Grocery Shopping with Aunt Geeta · Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · ss (r)
- · Aunt · Al Young · ss (r)
- · The Art of Benny Carter · Al Young · ss (r)
- · In Marin Again · Al Young · ss (r)
- · A Sunday Sonnet for My Mother’s Mother · Al Young · pm (r)
- · 10 PM · Kate Braverman · ss (r)
- · You Ask About Madness · Kate Braverman · ss (r)
- · Softenings · Kate Braverman · ss (r)
- · Upstream · Gerald Haslam · ss (r)
- · A Radio with Guts · Charles Bukowski · ss (r)
- · the Red Porsche · Charles Bukowski · ss (r)
- · Eulogy to a Hell of a Dame— · Charles Bukowski · ss (r)
- · The Planter Box · Molly Giles · ss (r)
- · The Linden Tree · Ella Leffland · ss (r)
- · Wildflowers · David Mas Masumoto · ss (r)
- · The Ring · Diane Wakoski · ss (r)
- · The Photos · Diane Wakoski · ss (r)
- · Precision · Diane Wakoski · ss (r)
- · San Francisco I: Mary Temple · Oakley Hall · ss (r)
- · Farewell to Manzanar · John Korty · ss (r)
- · Two Vignettes · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- · America’s Wild Child · Richard Rodriguez · ss (r)
- · Don’t Forget · Victor Martinez · ss (r)
- · Death of a Hog · DeWayne Rail · ss (r)
- · Scars · Dixie Salazar · ss (r)
- · Last Shot · Jon Veinberg · pm (r)
- · Today I’ll Sit Still · Ernesto Trejo · ss (r)
- · Graffiti · Roberta Spear · ss (r)
- · My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring · Luis Omar Salinas · ss (r)
- · Selected California Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)
- · Credits · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg (r)
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