The "Fallen Western Star" wars : a debate about literary California / edited by Jack Foley.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oakland, CA : Scarlet Tanager Books, c2001.
Description
85 p. ; 23 cm.

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Related name
Foley, Jack, 1940- [Browse]
Publisher
Scarlet Tanager Books [Browse]
Summary note
Jack Foley documents the heated debate that surrounds literary California. When Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?," published his provocative essay, "Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region," he knew that certain quarters would be up in arms. Prominent California literati were quick to defend the San Francisco Scene and wrote articles attacking Gioia. Others attacked the attackers. The entire exhilarating, sometimes hilarious exchange appears in this book.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Fallen Western Star / by Dana Gioia
  • Bohemia lost / by Dana Gioia
  • Thus do I refute Gioia / by Howard Junker
  • Local literary scene is worth celebrating / by Jonah Raskin
  • On "Fallen Western Star" / by Richard Silberg
  • Letter to poetry flash / by David Mason
  • The black hole of criticism / by Jack Foley
  • Response to Jack Foley / by Richard Silberg
  • Dan Gioia's "Fallen Western Star" / by Jacqueline Marcus
  • Letter to poetry flash / by Michael Lind
  • An open letter to Dana Gioia / by Scott Timberg
  • We are not publishing this in New York / by Jack Foley
  • Coda / by Jack Foley.
ISBN
0967022444 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001002622
OCLC
46918067
RCP
H - S
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