Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State
edited by Gerald W. Haslam
University of Nevada Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-87417-325-3
Library of Congress Classification PS571.C2M36 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.809794
Paper: 978-0-87417-325-3
Library of Congress Classification PS571.C2M36 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.809794
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Califonias features sixty-seven authors ranging from Jack London to Maxine Hong Kingston, making it the most diverse general-interest anthology available.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Gerald W. Haslam, the author of Straight White Male and other award-winning titles, is professor emeritus of English at Sonoma State University. He lives in Northern California.
REVIEWS
Many Californias lives up to the promise of its title, united writers from various ethnic, historic, regional, and philosophical corners of the state." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A comprehensive look at the works—and writers—that contribute to [California's] lush literary landscape." —Oakland Tribune
"The whole book is in essence a sampler of the humanity within the state . . . Thanks to writer and anthologist Gerald Haslam, [our stories] have been recognized and are being told." —California English
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- EARLY CALIFORNIA
- Native Voices
- Hispanic California
- American Incursion and the Gold Rush
- Californios
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Life at the Mines
- Clapp, Louisa Smith
- Joaquín
- Ridge, John Rollin
- “The Society Upon the Stanislaus,”
- Harte, Bret
- “Dickens in Camp,”
- Harte, Bret
- Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn
- Clemens, Samuel
- The Bubble Reputation
- Bierce, Ambrose
- THE RISE OF THE REGIONS
- Greater Bay Area
- South of the Slot
- London, Jack
- Shootout
- Norris, Frank
- “The California Poppy,”
- Coolbrith, Ina
- “Dead in the Sierras,”
- Miller, Joaquín
- “The Man with the Hoe,”
- Markham, Edwin
- Slant-Eyed Americans
- Mori, Toshio
- Southland
- Sheep-Shearing Time
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Out There Where Men Are Men
- Wilson, Harry Leon
- Land of Boyhood
- Powell, Lawrence Clark
- “Noon on Alameda Street,”
- Flanner, Hildegarde
- “The Snake at Shingle Springs,”
- Flanner, Hildegarde
- In the First Person
- Macdonald, Ross
- Heartland
- Guggenheim's Water Tower, Fresno, 1921
- Saroyan, William
- The Squatters’ Camps
- Steinbeck, John
- “The Residual Years,”
- Everson, William
- “Muscat Pruning,”
- Everson, William
- “Winter Plowing,”
- Everson, William
- The Watch
- Rojas, Arnold
- Wilderness California
- The Range of Light
- Muir, John
- My Neighbor's Field
- Austin, Mary Hunter
- “Vulture,”
- Jeffers, Robinson
- “Autumn Evening,”
- Jeffers, Robinson
- “Hurt Hawks,”
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Fantasy California
- An Island Called California
- Montalvo, Garci Ordóñez de
- “Facing West from California's Shores,”
- Whitman, Walt
- Adore
- West, Nathanael
- INTERLUDE: THE SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE
- “A Supermarket in California,”
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Dharma Bums
- Kerouac, Jack
- “Dog,”
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- “Spring Rain,”
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- “My Mother Would Be a Falconress,”
- Duncan, Robert
- “I Have Folded My Sorrows,”
- Kaufman, Bob
- A CONTEMPORARY SAMPLER
- “Marin-An,”
- Snyder, Gary
- “Above Pate Valley,”
- Snyder, Gary
- “Hay for the Horses,”
- Snyder, Gary
- The Opium of the People
- See, Carolyn
- “On the Coast Near Sausalito,”
- Hass, Robert
- “Palo Alto: The Marshes,”
- Hass, Robert
- Los Angeles Notebook
- Didion, Joan
- “To Sergie My Sweet Old Dog Who Died in Old Age,”
- Salas, Floyd
- “Wyoming Is an Indian Name,”
- Salas, Floyd
- The American Father
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Dealing with the Whole Child
- McFadden, Cyra
- “Crop Dusting,”
- Nathan, Leonard
- “Fields in Light,”
- Nathan, Leonard
- Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning
- Stegner, Wallace
- “Letter from a Friend in Monterey,”
- McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
- “Dead Valley Town,”
- McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
- “Sleeping in a Truck,”
- McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
- My Father Can Beat Muhammad Alt
- Yamamoto, Hisaye
- “weightlifting,”
- Locklin, Gerald
- “The Best Year of Her Life,”
- Locklin, Gerald
- “happy hour,”
- Locklin, Gerald
- Soldado Razo
- Valdez, Luis
- The Screamer
- Coleman, Wanda
- The Tomato Field
- Gardner, Leonard
- “Thinking Like a Kid,”
- Soto, Gary
- “Magnets,”
- Soto, Gary
- “A Red Palm,”
- Soto, Gary
- Wilderness Fire
- Berriault, Gina
- Grocery Shopping with Aunt Geeta
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
- “Aunt,”
- Young, Al
- “The Art of Benny Carter,”
- Young, Al
- “In Marin Again,”
- Young, Al
- “A Sunday Sonnet for My Mother's Mother,”
- Young, Al
- “10 PM,”
- Braverman, Kate
- “You Ask About Madness,”
- Braverman, Kate
- “Softenings,”
- Braverman, Kate
- Upstream,
- Haslam, Gerald
- “a radio with guts,”
- Bukowski, Charles
- “the red porsche,”
- Bukowski, Charles
- “eulogy to a hell of a dame—,”
- Bukowski, Charles
- The Planter Box
- Giles, Molly
- The Linden Tree
- Leffland, Ella
- Wildflowers
- Masumoto, David Mas
- “The Ring,”
- Wakoski, Diane
- “The Photos,”
- Wakoski, Diane
- “Precision,”
- Wakoski, Diane
- San Francisco 1: Mary Temple
- Hall, Oakley
- Farewell to Manzanar
- Houston, James D.
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Korty, John
- Two Vignettes
- Tan, Amy
- America's Wild Child
- Rodriguez, Richard
- The Fresno Poets
- “Don't Forget,”
- Martínez, Victor
- “Death of a Hog,”
- Rail, DeWayne
- “Scars,”
- Salazar, Dixie
- “Last Shot,”
- Veinberg, Jon
- “Today I'll Sit Still,”
- Trejo, Ernesto
- “Graffiti,”
- Spear, Roberta
- “My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring,”
- Salinas, Luis Omar
- Selected California Bibliography
- Credits
- About the Editor
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