Many Californias Literature from the Golden State
second edition 1999
Contents
*Asterisks indicate excerpts from longer works.
Titles of poems are enclosed in quotation marks.
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Acknowledgments, xi
Introduction, 1
EARLY CALIFORNIA
Native Voices, 5
Hispanic California, 11
American Incursion and the Gold Rush, 15
Richard Henry Dana
Californios,* 18
Louisa Smith Clapp
Life at the Mines,* 22
John Rollin Ridge
Joaquin,* 24
Bret Harte
"The Society Upon the Stanislaus," 27
"Dickens in Camp," 29
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn, 31
Ambrose Bierce
The Bubble Reputation, 36
THE RISE OF THE REGIONS
Greater Bay Area, 45
Jack London
South of the Slot, 47
Frank Norris
Shootout,* 62.
Ina Coolbrith
"The California Poppy," 69
Joaquin Miller
"Dead in the Sierras," 70
Edwin Markham
"The Man with the Hoe," 72
Toshio Mori
Slant-Eyed Americans, 74
Southland, 80
Helen Hunt Jackson
Sheep-Shearing Time," 82
Harry Leon Wilson
Out There Where Men
Are Men," 85
Lawrence Clark Powell
Land of Boyhood, 88
Hildegarde Flanner
"Noon on Alameda Street," 91
"The Snake at Shingle Springs," 93
Ross Macdonald
In the First Person, 94
Heartland, 101
William Saroyan
Guggenheim’s Water Tower,
Fresno, 1921, 103
John Steinbeck
The Squatters’ Camps,* 105
William Everson
"The Residual Years," 110
"Muscat Pruning," 112
"Winter Plowing,” 113
Arnold Rojas
The Watch, 114
Wilderness California, 116
John Muir
The Range of Light,* 118
Mary Hunter Austin
My Neighbor’s Field,* 121
Robinson Jeffers
"Vulture," 126
"Autumn Evening," 127
"Hurt Hawks," 128
Fantasy California, 129
Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo
An Island Called California, 131
Walt Whitman
"Facing West from California’s Shores," 133
Nathanael West
Adore,* 135
INTERLUDE: THE SAN
FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE
Allen Ginsberg
"A Supermarket in California,"150
Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums,* 152
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Dog," 156
Kenneth Rexroth
"Spring Rain," 159
Robert Duncan
"My Mother Would Be a
Falconress," 161
Bob Kaufman
“I Have Folded My Sorrows," 16
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A CONTEMPORARY SAMPLER
Gary Snyder
"Marin-An," 172
"Above Pate Valley," 174
"Hay for the Horses," 175
Carolyn See
The Opium of the People,* 176
Robert Hass
"On the Coast Near Sausalito," 180
"Palo Alto: The Marshes," 183
Joan Didion
Los Angeles Notebook,* 187
Floyd Salas
"To Sergie My Sweet Old Dog
Who Died in Old Age," 193
"Wyoming Is an Indian Name," 196
Maxine Hong Kingston
The American Father, 198
Cyra McFadden
Dealing with the Whole Child,* 215
Leonard Nathan
"Crop Dusting," 218
"Fields in Light," 219
Wallace Stegner
Coming Of Age: The End of the Beginning, 221
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
"Letter from a Friend in Monterey," 227
"Dead Valley Town," 229
"Sleeping in a Truck," 230
Hisaye Yamamoto
My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali, 231
Gerald Locklin
"weightlifting," 235
"The Best Year of Her Life," 237
"happy hour," 238
Luis Valdez
Soldado Razo, 240
Wanda Coleman
The Screamer, 252
Leonard Gardner
The Tomato Field,* 259
Gary Soto
"Thinking Like a Kid," 265
"Magnets," 267
"A Red Palm," 269
Gina Berriault
Wilderness Fire, 271
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Grocery Shopping with Aunt Geeta, 277
Al Young
"Aunt," 281
"The Art of Benny Carter," 283
"In Marin Again," 284
"A Sunday Sonnet for My Mother’s Mother," 285
Kate Braverman
"10 PM," 286
" You Ask About Madness," 288
"Softenings," 290
Gerald Haslam
Upstream, 292
Charles Bukowski
"a radio with guts," 300
"the red porsche," 302
"eulogy to a hell of a dame—," 304
Molly Giles
The Planter Box, 306
Ella Leffland
The Linden Tree, 311
David Mas Masumoto
Wildflowers,* 325
Diane Wakoski
"The Ring," 329
"The Photos,” 331
"Precision," 333
Oakley Hall
San Francisco 1: Mary Temple,* 336
Jarnes D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,
and John Korty
Farewell to Manzanar,* 341
Amy Tan
Two Vignettes, 354
Richard Rodriguez
America’s Wild Child, 356
The Fresno Poets, 361
Victor Martínez
"Don’t Forget," 362
DeWayne Rail
"Death of a Hog," 363
Dixie Salazar
"Scars," 364
Jon Veinberg
"Last Shot," 365
Ernesto Trejo
"Today I’ll Sit Still,” 367
Roberta Spear
"Graffiti," 368
Luis Omar Salinas
"My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring," 370
Selected California Bibliography,
373
Credits, 391
About the Editor, 396
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