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EARLY CALIFORNIA
Native Voices
Hispanic California
American Incursion and the Gold Rush
Richard Henry Dana Californios*
Louisa Smith Clapp Life at the Mines*
John Rollin Ridge Joaquin*
Bret Harte
"The Society Upon the Stanislaus"
"Dickens in Camp"
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn
Ambrose Bierce The Bubble Reputation
THE RISE OF THE REGIONS
Greater Bay Area
Jack London
South of the Slot
Frank Norris
Shootout*
Ina Coolbrith
"The California Poppy"
Joaquin Miller
"Dead in the Sierras"
Edwin Markham
"The Man with the Hoe"
Toshio Mori
Slant-Eyed Americans
Southland
Helen Hunt Jackson
Sheep-Shearing Time"
Harry Leon Wilson
Out There Where Men
Are Men"
Lawrence Clark Powell
Land of Boyhood
Hildegarde Flanner
"Noon on Alameda Street"
"The Snake at Shingle Springs"
Ross Macdonald
In the First Person
Heartland
William Saroyan
Guggenheim’s Water Tower,
Fresno, 1921
John Steinbeck
The Squatters’ Camps*
William Everson
"The Residual Years"
"Muscat Pruning"
"Winter Plowing”
Arnold Rojas
The Watch
Wilderness California, 116
John Muir
The Range of Light*
Mary Hunter Austin
My Neighbor’s Field*
Robinson Jeffers
"Vulture"
"Autumn Evening"
"Hurt Hawks"
Fantasy California
Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo
An Island Called California
Walt Whitman
"Facing West from California’s Shores"
Nathanael West
Adore*
INTERLUDE: THE SAN
FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE
Allen Ginsberg
"A Supermarket in California"
Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums*
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Dog"
Kenneth Rexroth
"Spring Rain"
Robert Duncan
"My Mother Would Be a
Falconress"
Bob Kaufman
“I Have Folded My Sorrows"
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A CONTEMPORARY SAMPLER
Gary Snyder
"Marin-An"
"Above Pate Valley"
"Hay for the Horses"
Carolyn See
The Opium of the People*
Robert Hass
"On the Coast Near Sausalito"
"Palo Alto: The Marshes"
Joan Didion
Los Angeles Notebook*
Floyd Salas
"To Sergie My Sweet Old Dog
Who Died in Old Age"
"Wyoming Is an Indian Name"
Maxine Hong Kingston
The American Father
Cyra McFadden
Dealing with the Whole Child*
Leonard Nathan
"Crop Dusting"
"Fields in Light"
Wallace Stegner
Coming Of Age: The End of the Beginning1
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
"Letter from a Friend in Monterey"
"Dead Valley Town"
"Sleeping in a Truck"
Hisaye Yamamoto
My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali
Gerald Locklin
"weightlifting"
"The Best Year of Her Life"
"happy hour"
Luis Valdez
Soldado Razo
Wanda Coleman
The Screamer
Leonard Gardner
The Tomato Field*
Gary Soto
"Thinking Like a Kid"
"Magnets"
"A Red Palm"
Gina Berriault
Wilderness Fire
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Grocery Shopping with Aunt Geeta
Al Young
"Aunt"
"The Art of Benny Carter"
"In Marin Again"
"A Sunday Sonnet for My Mother’s Mother"
Kate Braverman
"10 PM"
" You Ask About Madness"
"Softenings"
Gerald Haslam
Upstream
Charles Bukowski
"a radio with guts"
"the red porsche"
"eulogy to a hell of a dame—"
Molly Giles
The Planter Box
Ella Leffland
The Linden Tree
David Mas Masumoto
Wildflowers*
Diane Wakoski
"The Ring"
"The Photos"
"Precision"
Oakley Hall
San Francisco 1: Mary Temple*
Jarnes D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,
and John Korty
Farewell to Manzanar*
Amy Tan
Two Vignettes
Richard Rodriguez
America’s Wild Child
The Fresno Poets
Victor Martínez
"Don’t Forget"
DeWayne Rail
"Death of a Hog"
Dixie Salazar
"Scars"
Jon Veinberg
"Last Shot"
Ernesto Trejo
"Today I’ll Sit Still"
Roberta Spear
"Graffiti,"
Luis Omar Salinas
"My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring"
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