Download or read book San Franshitshow written by Cal Calamia and published by Nomadic. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. SAN FRANSHITSHOW is an emotional reckoning with self, love, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss and of coming to terms with yourself in a world that would prefer you did not: how this struggle impacts every area of your life. It expresses the power of self-acceptance with grace and humor. Calamia's debut is a unifying force of a memoir--a poignant, tender collection of poetry that will open your heart--every poem as raw as a tear-stained diary page.
Download or read book The Legends of San Francisco written by George W. Caldwell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Legends of San Francisco by George W. Caldwell
Download or read book Dream of the Lake written by Caroline M. Mar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a love letter to two ancestors, Caroline M. Mar reckons with the shapes our bodies take in water and the shapes our bodies take in memory. By the icy waters where drowned Chinese railroad workers lay to rest, DREAM OF THE LAKE questions how our family stories slip away from us with each passing generation. Will our memories be preserved, or will we become characters in our children's children's retelling of history? These deeply resonant poems are songs of survival, navigating inheritance, identity, and language as they recover voices lost to time and lost to the lake. Poetry.
Download or read book Fantasia for the Man in Blue written by Tommye Blount and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2020 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of a brutal America through the voices of its most vulnerable sons. In his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer - the titular "man in blue" - becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous, erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected here in a suite of poems, addresses the contradiction between his public persona and a life spent largely in the closet: "It's a calling, this hunger / to sing for a love I'm too ashamed to want for myself." In "Aaron McKinney Cleans His Magnum," the convicted killer imagines the barrel of the gun he used to bludgeon Matthew Shepherd as an "infant's small mouth" as well as the "sad calculator" that was "built to subtract from and divide a town." In these and other poems, Blount viscerally captures the experience of the "other" and locates us squarely within these personae"--
Download or read book San Francisco written by Mick Sinclair and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Cities of the Imagination Series, this book presents an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide to San Francisco, a beautiful city renowned for its artists, eccentrics, visionaries, and activism.
Download or read book The Legends of San Francisco written by George W. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you know the mystic legend Of the peaks of San Francisco-- Of the Twin Peaks standing Guardian Of the gay and careless city, Ever laughing by the gateway Of our Golden California?
Download or read book The Legends of San Francisco written by George W. Caldwell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book And If the Woods Carry You written by Erin Rodoni and published by Southern Indiana Review Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. On the brink of climate catastrophe, a mother grappling with her choice to bring children into an apocalyptic world sends her daughters into the woods of fairy tale as a rite of initiation. The woods carry her fears of extinction--devastating fires, rising seas, and the predatory dangers of girlhood--but also contain the transformative magic of love, interdependence, and renewal. AND IF THE WOODS CARRY YOU roots into the wild heart of motherhood, where worry and wonder intertwine. Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies.
Download or read book Strange But True San Francisco written by Lisa Montanarelli and published by Insiders' Guide (CT). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new series will visit major US cities, bringing together their most bizarre news items --classic strange but true stories that reached the and finally sections of news reports worldwide.
Download or read book The Beat Generation in San Francisco written by Bill Morgan and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining read as well as a practical walking (and driving) tour, this guide covers the entire Bay Area, and comes with an introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory written by James Cagney and published by Nomadic. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams, blues, and a chorus of voices, this collection of poems examines the complexities of intimacy for an adopted person trying to find balance between two families--one rattled by age and illness; the other, holding space for a son that doesn't exist. Poetry. Second Edition.
Download or read book The Barbary Coast written by Herbert Asbury and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.
Download or read book West Portal written by Benjamin Gucciardi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles-the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?"--
Download or read book The Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco written by Robert Ernest Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mud Blood and Gold written by Rand Richards and published by Heritage House Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.
Download or read book The Madams of San Francisco written by Curt Gentry and published by Comstock Publishing. This book was released on 1977-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
