Poetry. Environmental Studies. California Interest. Foreword by Dana Gioia. Introduction by Jack Foley. More than 250 poems by 149 contributors, including Ellen Bass, Christopher Buckley, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, ...
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Fiction. Children's Literature. Ages 4 and up. Illustrated by Gina Aoay Orosco. THE RAINBOW ZOO is a magical place where you might find animals of any hue. Accompanying two children on a tour of the Rainbow Zoo, readers learn the names of animals an...
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Poetry. California Interest. Native American Studies. Containing the work of 31 poets from 29 tribes, Red Indian Road West is the first poetry anthology encompassing the entire range of Native American experience in California. With more than 720,00...
Poetry. "CATCH AND OTHER POEMS forcefully reminds us that the first and foremost power of the imagination is to see. Vividly looking backward or forward, or brilliantly in the present, these poems plunge us into the stuff of life with clarity, depth...
Poetry. TURNING A TRAIN OF THOUGHT UPSIDE DOWN is an anthology of poems by 41 San Francisco Bay Area women poets."Forty-one women are unarmed but dangerous. They can change your life with clarity, truth and power in equal measure. These poets, from ...
Poetry. "LUCK delivers a whole life in snapshots taken at moments of bell-like clarity in late afternoon just before half-light descends. Accessible, highly compressed phrases and luminous language. Complete awareness of life's transience and of tho...
Poetry. THE NUMBER BEFORE INFINITY reads like a novel or memoir in verse. Each poem is a chapter in the story of two lovers united by passion but separated by previous commitments. In lyrical, accessible verse, the book follows the lovers as they ch...
Poetry. "Surprisingly soon into Anne Coray's outstanding first poetry collection, BONE STRINGS, you can 'relax' (the quotes guard against any impression that these might all be light or easy poems) in the knowledge that you are in the hands of a wri...
Poetry. "The comic genius of Judy Wells takes a serious turn in CALL HOME. Ninety-two-year-old Irene announces to her children that she is dying, and so the wake begins with the waggish matriarch in full attendance. In thirty-two poetic vignettes, J...
Poetry. In Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's work as a Jungian analyst she was flooded by poems dealing with the analytic process that now comprise the core of CRIMES OF THE DREAMER."The dance of her poems is a recovery of the deep anima-energy. Lowinsky's myth...
Poetry. Risa Kaparo is a teacher, therapist and writer who makes her home on the island of Kauai. Her life, like that of the Handless Maiden—the character from the fairy tale that forms the thematic underpinning of this collection—was transformed wh...
Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. In THE "FALLEN WESTEN STAR" WARS, 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: Th...
Poetry. VISIONS, a new collection of Marc Elihu Hofstadter's poetry, documents the attempt to reify the optics of paintings into the text of poetry. "Marc Hofstadter wields an optical instrument that captures the rays that emanate from the interiors...
Fiction. In his collection of short stories, CATCHING THE BULLET, Daniel Hawks explores the realms of "the ordinary" with extraordinary aptness."Is elegant the right term for a world of fold-up baby strollers, big-time wrestling, and misplaced pants...
Poetry. RED CLAY IS TALKING is the first published collection of poetry by prominent Jungian analyst Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. In this new collection, Lowinsky transcribes her experience as a woman, and a young mother, a traveler in India into her poetry...