Product Description: In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public appeal for poems that explored the realities of people’s lives in a city as tough and tragic as it is beautiful and exhilarating. This anthology collects the best of this poetry by celebrated writers, schoolchildren with fresh eyes, homeless people and students, perceptive elders and working people from every ethnicity and class...read more

Product Description: Fly-fish the pristine waters of the Owens River. Step up to the microphone in a California honky-tonk. Surf the biggest waves California has ever seen. Mingle with ducks in an urban oasis. Roller skate through L.A.'s Union Station...read more

Product Description: Award-winning writer, performer, and teacher devorah major became the third Poet Laureate of San Francisco in April 2002. The author of countless essays, short stories, and poems, major has presented her work across the United States and Europe...read more

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Explores the topics of fathers and sons; family and community; and the quest for spiritual values in the modern-day black community of San Francisco's Fillmore district.

Product Description: Book by Norrise, Bobbe

While her family, including a psychic mother and a gifted grandmother, await the return of Imani on her seventeenth birthday, Imani supports a best friend, who has just revealed that she is pregnant. Reprint. K. LJ.

Gathers poems exploring life in the streets, Angola, interracial relationships, men, and time

Product Description: poetry by two Bay area women