Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City - download pdf or read online

By Laurence Goldstein

Is there this kind of factor as la poetry? How will we examine a poem a couple of urban as elusive of identification as la? What gains do poems approximately this specified city panorama of numerous peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the 1st publication to collect and study poems approximately websites as diverse as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice shorelines, the freeways, downtown, South critical and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein offers unique remark on six a long time of poets who've contributed to the iconography and poetics of l. a. literature, together with Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, pleasure Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. 40 poems are reproduced of their entirety.

One bankruptcy is dedicated to Charles Bukowski, the fame face of the city’s poetry. different chapters talk about the ways in which poets discover “Interiors” and “Exteriors” in the course of the cityscape. Goldstein additionally offers plentiful connections to the novels, movies, paintings, and politics of Southern California. In transparent prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the options wherein poets make major locations significant and noteworthy to readers of each sector of the U.S. and elsewhere.

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