Poetry Los Angeles
Subtitle: reading the city's essential poems
By: Laurence Goldstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780472072248; 9780472052240
Subjects: In literature; American poetry; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Thomas McGrath, Suzanne Lummis, James Harms; title: The Pacific Ocean of the poets: Robinson Jeffers, Mark Jarman, Derek Walcott, Lawrence Lipton, Eleni Sikelianos, Lewis MacAdams, Charles Wright, Susan Suntree; title: Hollywood, "here" and everywhere: Karl Shapiro, Bertolt Brecht, Vachel Lindsay, Randall Jarrell, Robert Hass, Wanda Coleman, David Wojahn, Frederick Seidel; title: How good, or bad, is Charles Bukowski's poetry?; title: On the freeway : moving fast and standing still: Frank Bidart, Eloise Klein Healy, Wanda Coleman, James Schevill, Ron Koertge, Carol Muske-Dukes, Miroslav Holub, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Armstrong, James Harms, Dana Goodyear, Dana Gioia, Diane Wakoski; title: South Central : the lofty towers and the plains of id: Elizabeth Alexander, Michèlle T. Clinton, Wanda Coleman, Jack Hirschman, Samuel Maio, Ice Cube, Harryette Mullen; title: Californios, and the fertile blood of poetry: Lorna Dee Cervantes, Curtis Zahn, Gina Valdés, Gary Soto, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Richard Garcia, Aleida Rodríguez; title: Interiors : kinds of sanctuary: Victoria Chang, Garrett Hongo, Denis Johnson, Quincey Troupe, Charles Gullans, Paul Monette, Carol Muske-Dukes; title: Exteriors : signs of the endtime: David Trinidad, Timothy Steele, Henri Coulette, Charles Harper Webb, Dorothy Barresi, Joy Harjo; title: Conclusion: Nik De Dominic, Patty Seyburn, Dana Gioia; title: Twenty more poems about Los Angeles.