Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley
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The Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley explores the emotions and experiences of a beloved controversial American city from a poetry perspective In this very original anthology celebrating the poetics of place, The Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley gives the armchair traveler a true sense of what this famous place is all about. Like a traditional field guide, its chapters range from poems written about the historic University of California campus to lively Telegraph Avenue to the nature-filled Berkeley Hills to West Berkeley by the San Francisco Bay, among other connected neighborhoods. Contributing…mehr

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The Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley explores the emotions and experiences of a beloved controversial American city from a poetry perspective In this very original anthology celebrating the poetics of place, The Poetry Field Guide to Berkeley gives the armchair traveler a true sense of what this famous place is all about. Like a traditional field guide, its chapters range from poems written about the historic University of California campus to lively Telegraph Avenue to the nature-filled Berkeley Hills to West Berkeley by the San Francisco Bay, among other connected neighborhoods. Contributing poets including US Poet Laureate emeritus Robert Hass, California Poet Laureate emeritus Al Young, Czeslaw Milosz, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Alta, Maw Shein Win, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Ayodele Nzinga, John Oliver Simon, and many more. With poems about its bookstores including Cody’s and Moe’s, cafes, its farmer’s market, among other topics, this inspiring volume is a love letter for every reader, no matter where they call home.
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Autorenporträt
Joyce Jenkins is editor and publisher of Poetry Flash. She is author of  Portal and Joy Road, and her poems have appeared in Parthenon West Review , Ambush Review, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk, ZYZZYVA , The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed, among other publications. She has received the American Book Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award, National Poetry Association's Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry Award, and the Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Berkeley, California. Richard Silberg is a poet, critic, translator, and Associate Editor of  Poetry Flash. His poetry book, Deconstruction of the Blues, received the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award. He is the author of Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry, The Horses: New & Selected Poems, as well as essays and several translations, among them The Three Way Tavern by South Korean poet Ko Un, which won a Northern California Book Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, Eleven Eleven, and New American Writing, among many other journals. He lives in Berkeley, California.