By Margaret Kaufman,Lynne Knight,Carolyn Miller,Dan Bellm,Terry Ehret,Gillian Wegener,Jacqueline Kudler,Sixteen Rivers Press,Robert Hass

ISBN-10: 0981981615

ISBN-13: 9780981981611

The poems during this anthology include what it truly is wish to reside within the striking weave of towns and cities, panorama and language, weather and background that make up the higher San Francisco Bay zone. chosen by way of the contributors of 16 Rivers Press, a nearby poetry collective named after the internet of rivers that circulate San Francisco Bay, the poems within the position THAT INHABITS US are drawn from either a actual and a metaphoric watershed. From the granite slopes of the Sierra to the Delta, throughout the Coastal variety to the bay and seashores of the Pacific, 100 poems through poets popular and never renowned, dwelling and useless, map this inconceivable quarter. There are egrets and grievous losses the following; prayers, panhandlers, Delta mornings and sunsets within the 'hood; the fog, definitely, and the bridges, yet there are colors of Dante on a Miwok path, and Wang-wei haunts the slopes of Grizzly top. those poems are inner maps, "the psychological maps that for humans," writes Robert Hass within the foreword, "make a spot a place." accumulated jointly, they evoke the San Francisco Bay watershed, where that inhabits us.

Poetry. California stories. Foreword via Robert Hass.

"One of the good pleasures of this anthology is that, at a definite second, a gaggle of early-twenty-first-century poets made a range of poems in regards to the position that mattered to them, in order that this ebook is set the event of place—and approximately being given the remembered expression of the event of position through others who've lived the following. And that starts off to be a culture." --—Robert Hass

'What a correct quantity of poetry and what a big diversity of poets—iincluding many of the greats in addition to the but unknown—and what a wealthy and bold array of subject matters, issues, settings, and feelings! if you happen to love poetry and poetics, you'll be smitten over and over by means of this cornucopia, this notable, varied harvest." --—Michael Krasny, Forum,KQED-FM, San Francisco

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