The "Fallen Western Star" wars
Subtitle: a debate about literary California
By: edited by Jack Foley.
Contributors: Foley, Jack, 1940-
Publisher: Scarlet Tanager Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: American literature -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Criticism -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.; American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.; American literature -- California -- History and criticism.; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Intellectual life.; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- In literature.; West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.; California -- Intellectual life.; West (U.S.) -- In literature.; California -- In literature.
Description: Jack Foley documents the heated debate that surrounds literary California. When Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?," published his provocative essay, "Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region," he knew that certain quarters would be up in arms. Prominent California literati were quick to defend the San Francisco Scene and wrote articles attacking Gioia. Others attacked the attackers. The entire exhilarating, sometimes hilarious exchange appears in this book.
Table of contents: title: Fallen Western Star / Dana Gioia; title: Bohemia lost / Dana Gioia; title: Thus do I refute Gioia / Howard Junker; title: Local literary scene is worth celebrating / Jonah Raskin; title: On "Fallen Western star" / Richard Silberg; title: Letter to Poetry flash / David Mason; title: The black hole of criticism / Jack Foley; title: Response to Jack Foley / Richard Silberg; title: Dan Gioia's "Fallen Western Star" / Jacqueline Marcus; title: Letter to Poetry flash / Michael Lind; title: An open letter to Dana Gioia / Scott Timberg; title: We are not publishing this in New York /  Jack Foley; title: Coda / Jack Foley.