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Title

Highway 99 : a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley / edited by Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, and Patricia Wakida.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : Great Valley Books/Heyday Books, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Yogi, Stan
• Mak, Gayle
• Wakida, Patricia

Description

xxxi, 545 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Highway Ninety-nine

Subject

• American literature > Central Valley (Valley)
• Central Valley (Calif. : Valley) > Literary collections
• Central Valley (Calif. : Valley) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-542) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• YOKUTS TALE, The Man and the Owls -- PEDRO FAGES, In the South San Joaquin -- ANDREW FREEMAN, The Arrival of Whites -- JEDEDIAH S. SMITH, from The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith, 1826-1827 -- GEORGE H. DERBY, from Report of the Tulare Valley -- THOMAS JEFFERSON MAYFIELD, from Tailholt Tales -- WILLIAM HENRY BREWER, from Up and Down California, 1860-1864 -- GARY THOMPSON, Old Cohasset Road -- JOHN MUIR, from The Bee-Pastures -- GARY SNYDER, Covers the Ground -- FRANK NORRIS, from The Octopus -- MARY AUSTIN, The Walking Woman -- ERNESTO GALARZA, from Barrio Boy -- WILLIAM SAROYAN, The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse -- YOIMUT, I Am the Last -- JOHN STEINBECK, from The Harvest Gypsies -- WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL, Picking Grapes 1937 -- GERALD HASLAM, The Doll -- WILLIAM SAROYAN, Fresno -- MARK ARAX, from In My Father's Name -- DAVID MAS MASUMOTO, Firedance -- WILLIAM EVERSON, San Joaquin, The Rain on that Morning -- FRANZ WEINSCHENK, Madera -- WILLIAM EVERSON, The Ruin, Fog -- ARIS JANIGIAN, from Bloodvine -- ART COELHO, Papa's Naturalization -- LEE NICHOLSON, A New Sonnet from the Portuguese: A Festo do Espirito Santo; Coronation Day -- AMADO MURO, Something About Fieldhands -- CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI, The Brides Come to Yuba City, Yuba City School -- CARLOS BULOSAN, from America is in the Heart -- ALAN CHONG LAU "SUN YAT SEN COMES TO LODI" -- MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, from The American Father -- WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL, Them Chinamen Has Got a Lottery -- LAWSON FUSAO INADA, Trombpoem, Elementary Spanish -- SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS, The Iconography of Childhood, the wishon line, The Green-Eyed Monsters of the Valley Dusk -- ERNEST J. FINNEY, Peacocks -- DON THOMPSON, Poso Flat -- LARRY LEVIS, Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard, The Poet at Seventeen -- ROBERTA SPEAR, Armona -- MINH DUC NGUYEN, from Tale of Apricot -- MIKE COLE, English 9 -- GREGORY RAMIREZ, Chorizo -- DEWAYNE RAIL, Going Home Again/Poem for My Father -- VUONG VU, My First Month in Fresno -- ARTHUR SMITH, Elegy on Independence Day -- DAVID KHERDIAN, The Walnut Tree Trunk Clothed in the Green Leaves Of an Embracing Vine, It Becomes This for Me -- ROBERT MEZEY, The Underground Gardens, White Blossoms -- DENNIS SCHMITZ, The California Phrasebook -- JOAN DIDION, Notes from a Native Daughter -- RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, from Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years -- JOSE MONTOYA, Resonant Valley, Gabby Took the 99 -- PHILIP LEVINE, Ricky, Ashes -- LUIS VALDEZ, Quinta Temporada -- GREG PAPE, Á Viva la Helga! -- DAVID DOMINGUEZ, Galdini Sausage, The Strike -- GEORGE KEITHLEY, 'Time Accomplishes for the Poor What Money Does for the Rich', The Red Bluff Rodeo -- LEONARD GARDNER, from Fat City -- SUSAN KELLY-DE WITT, Yuba City Orchards, 1961, February Heat -- DON THOMPSON, Medusa -- JEAN JANZEN, Sometimes, Toward the End of the Century -- PETER EVERWINE, Back from the Fields, The Hatch -- ARCHIE MINASIAN, Early Summer Through Los Banos, How Foolish the Sweating Men -- DEWAYNE RAIL, Pickers, The Field -- JOYCE CAROL THOMAS, Tracy Poem -- OCEAN JONES, Tracy Tomatoes in August
• GARY SOTO, Hoeing, Harvest -- ART COELHO, Evening Comes Slow to a Fieldhand -- BLAS MANUEL DE LUNA, Bent to the Earth, Huron -- DAVID ST. JOHN, The Olive Grove -- JAMES D. HOUSTON, In Search of Oildorado -- WILLIAM RINTOUL, The Gangpusher -- VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, from The Land was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer -- WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL, Return to Tagus Ranch, Viewing Kern County Desolation -- LEE MCCARTHY, Mirror on the Wall -- JENNIFER MURPHY, Descent -- GERALD HASLAM, Oildale -- LAWSON FUSAO INADA, Memory -- GARY SOTO, History, Like Mexicans -- ROD RICARDO-LIVINGSTONE, Summer Fruits -- ROBERT VASQUEZ, At the Rainbow, Belief -- ERNESTO TREJO, Autumn's End -- JEAN JANZEN, White Field -- ANDRES MONTOYA, The Rains have Left and Ernesto is Dead -- GEORGE KEITHLEY, Autumn -- CLAUDIA MONPERE, Dirt Cities -- SUSAN KELLY-DE WITT, Rice Fields at Dusk -- LILLIAN VALLEE, Hawk at the Delta Mendota Canal, Los Banos Reservoir, New Melons, Etc., Etc. -- WENDY ROSE, November: San Joaquin Valley, Thanksgiving on the San Joaquin Daily between Fresno and Martinez, Coalinga -- LEE NICHOLSON, Leaving the Mall, Water, Wealth -- RICHARD DOKEY, Birthright -- CATHERINE WEBSTER, Child off Hwy 99 -- JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, 99 the Road -- MIKE MADISON, Two Economies -- CHERRIE MORAGA, from Heroes and Saints -- REBECCA ROTHENBERG, from The Dandelion Murders -- JANET NICHOLS LYNCH, Signs of Change -- C.W. MOULTON, Atwater: Watching B-52's Coming in to Castle, Visiting Mussel Slough Looking at Stones and Clouds -- ROBERTA SPEAR, Some Voices -- BILL BARICH, Prison Valley -- CAROLINE ARAKELIAN, My Son's First Funeral -- BURLEE VANG, Confessions of a Hmong Thug to His Mother, MAYLI VANG, Hmong Women -- YVETTE CARRILLO, Rebelde -- ANDRES MONTOYA, Fresno Night -- DANIEL CHACON, from Expression of Our People -- JON VEINBERG, Motel Drive, Hardpan, Terra Bella -- DIXIE SALAZAR, Thrifter's Paradise, Hotel Fresno, Reincarnation of the Commonplace, Fresno Pet Cemetery -- LEE HERRICK, In the Tower District -- TIM Z. HERNANDEZ, How to Catch a Train -- C.G. HANZLICEK, Adrenalin, Under Stars -- PHILIP KAN GOTANDA, from Fish Head Soup -- DAVID BOROFKA, My Life as a Mystic -- CLARK BROWN, Cezanne's Fingers -- GARY THOMPSON, Hard Pan, In the Wild Rice, Chinese Walls -- ALAN CHONG LAU, 2 stops on the way home -- GREG PAPE, On Our Way -- PURVA BROWN, from The Ghosts Along Ninety-nine -- KAREN JOY FOWLER, from The Jane Austen Book Club -- THIPHAVANH LOUANGRATH, Old Maid -- MEE HER, Bowling to Find a Lost Father -- LUIS OMAR SALINAS, My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring -- PHILIP LEVINE, Snails, Magpiety -- WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL, Self-Knowledge, How to Catch a Train.

ISBN

• 9781597140676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1597140678 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007009806

OCLC

• 86109820
• SCSB-12614021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library