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Handwritten poem by Ina Coolbrith to Leone Cadenasso dated April 2, 1907.
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File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Poetry
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Handwritten poem by Ina Coolbrith to Leone Cadenasso dated April 2, 1907.
Author : Aleta George
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780986124013
In post-Gold Rush San Francisco, Ina Coolbrith was known as the pearl of her tribe, a tribe that included Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir. Jack London and Isadora Duncan considered her their literary godmother, and John Greenleaf Whittier knew more of her poems by heart than she did his. Regardless of the acclaim from others, Coolbrith met with a series of challenges throughout her life that tested her devotion to her art. In the end, she put her full faith in poetry and her story reveals the saving grace of creativity in a woman's life. Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California's First Poet Laureate is a new biography about a pioneer poet, Oakland's first public librarian, and the most popular literary ambassador in the early American West. George's deftly told and deeply researched book follows the struggles and triumphs of Coolbrith from her birth in 1841 as a niece of Mormon founder Joseph Smith to her death in 1928 as California's most beloved poet. California crowned Ina Coolbrith its first poet laureate in 1915 during San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and 2015 marks the centennial of her being named California's beloved first lady of letters. Aleta George writes about nature and culture in California. Her work has been featured in Smithsonian.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. This is her first book. "Telling Coolbrith's story, author Aleta George offers an intriguing glimpse of fin de siecle California and the rousing, sometimes rowdy adolescence of our nation." -Gerald Haslam, award-winning author and professor emeritus, Sonoma State University "In a book marked by literary grace and conviction, Aleta George presents a nuanced yet compelling portrait of a major California figure." -Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books "Coolbrith's life is so captivating that it has been waiting not just for another biographer, but for a first-rate storyteller." - David Alpaugh, Ina Coolbrith Circle
Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1921
Category : American poetry
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Author : Charles Warren STODDARD
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Ina Donna Coolbrith
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1929
Category : California
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Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
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The first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry, this ground-breaking new book presents the work of 101 authors across two centuries. California Poetry includes poets as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Yone Noguchi, Robinson Jeffers, Josephine Miles, Charles Bukowski, Ishmael Reed, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Marilyn Chin. With ample biographical and critical notes for each author, California Poetry goes beyond the limits of the ordinary anthology and provides a detailed and often intimate account of the Golden State's rich but often neglected cultural history.
Author : Susan L. Rattiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486112659
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans four centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.
Author : Ina Donna Coolbrith
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1895
Category : California
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Author : Ben Tarnoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0143126962
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this group biography introduces readers to the other young eccentric writers seeking to create a new American voice at the country’s edge—literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protector of the group. Ben Tarnoff’s elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering writers helped spread the Bohemian movement throughout the world, transforming American literature along the way. “Tarnoff’s book sings with the humor and expansiveness of his subjects’ prose, capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America’s frontier.” -- The New Yorker “Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... Mr. Tarnoff’s ultimate thesis is a strong one, strongly expressed: that together these writers ‘helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current’.” -- Wall Street Journal
Author : Howard Glyndon
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781563681387
Features poems by Civil War poet Laura Redden Searing.