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Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.Howl & Other Poems is the single most influent...

The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a neverbeforepublished selection of his earliest work. Rexroth?s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of fe...

CLICK HERE to download two sample hikes from Best Hikes with Kids San Francisco Features more than 100 kidfriendly trails A comprehensive guide for families hiking in the Bay Area!In this colorful guidebook to the best family trails in the entire Bay Area including Sonoma and Santa Cruz counties author Laure Latham developed her list of hi...

Moon Travel Guides: Your Adventure Starts HereWhether you're trekking through the wildflowers of the South Bay or the redwood forests of Marin, get a breath of fresh air with Moon 101 Great Hikes San Francisco Bay Area. Flexible Hiking Options: Hikes range from short, flat routes suitable for families to daylong, steep treks for more ambitious hik...

"The Apple Trees at Olema" includes work from Robert Hass's first five books"Field Guide," "Praise," "Human Wishes," "Sun Under Wood," and "Time and Materials"as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, a...

Playing off "The Wheels on the Bus," this nursery rhyme book from a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, freewheeling celebration of being your most fabulous self....

Poetry. California Studies. Foreword by Robert Hass. The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of...

An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twentyeight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan?s delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones?s Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan was ...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, now in paperbackD. A. Powell?s fifth book of poetry, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, explores the darker side of divisions and developments, the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, and bar. With witty banter, emotional resolve, and powerful lyricism, this collection demonst...