San Francisco Poems

San Francisco Poems
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781931404013

Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.

Poeta en San Francisco

Poeta en San Francisco
Author: Barbara Jane Reyes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino American literary publication Maganda. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF) in 2003.

The Place that Inhabits Us

The Place that Inhabits Us
Author: Sixteen Rivers Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
ISBN: 9780981981611

Poetry. California Studies. Foreword by Robert Hass. The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay, the poems in THE PLACE THAT INHABITS US are drawn from both a physical and a metaphoric watershed. From the granite slopes of the Sierra to the Delta, through the Coastal Range to the bay and shores of the Pacific, one hundred poems by poets well known and not well known, living and dead, map this improbable region. There are egrets and grievous losses here; prayers, panhandlers, Delta mornings and sunsets in the 'hood; the fog, certainly, and the bridges, but there are shades of Dante on a Miwok trail, and Wang-wei haunts the slopes of Grizzly Peak. These poems are internal maps, "the mental maps that for humans," writes Robert Hass in the foreword, "make a place a place." Gathered together, they evoke the San Francisco Bay watershed, the place that inhabits us.

San Francisco Beat

San Francisco Beat
Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780872863798

"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Huge Dreams

Huge Dreams
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1999-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In The New Book / A Book of Torture, a classic example of immediate biological expression, Michael McClure simultaneously delves into, and delivers himself from, the self-christened "dark night of the soul." Star, a book of wide-ranging exploration, spiritual discovery, and political protest, springs from the essence of our humanity - emotions, the sensations of eros, and play.

The San Francisco Renaissance

The San Francisco Renaissance
Author: Michael Davidson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1991-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521423045

The San Francisco Renaissance is the first review of this major American literary movement.

That Was Now, This Is Then

That Was Now, This Is Then
Author: Vijay Seshadri
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1644451328

The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning 3 Sections No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America’s greatest living poets. That Was Now, This Is Then takes on the planar paradoxes of time and space, destabilizing highly tuned lyrics and elegies with dizzying turns in poems of unrequitable longing, of longing for longing, of longing to be found, of grief. In these poems, Seshadri’s speaker becomes the subject, the reader becomes the writer, and the multiplying refracted narratives yield an “anguish so pure it almost / feels like joy.”

New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1

New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1
Author: David Lerner
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 141205270X

Flagship poetry anthology defining and presenting the underground Babarian genre and social movement in America.

The Beat Generation in San Francisco

The Beat Generation in San Francisco
Author: Bill Morgan
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780872864177

An entertaining read as well as a practical walking (and driving) tour, this guide covers the entire Bay Area, and comes with an introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.