Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Californios	18
	Life at the Mines	22
	Joaquin	24
	The Society Upon the Stanislaus	27
	Dickens in Camp	29
	Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn	31
	The Bubble Reputation	36
	South of the Slot	47
	Shootout	62
	The California Poppy	69
	Dead in the Sierras	70
	The Man with the Hoe	72
	Slant-Eyed Americans	74
	Sheep-Shearing Time	82
	Out There Where Men Are Men	85
	Land of Boyhood	88
	Noon on Alameda Street	91
	The Snake at Shingle Springs	93
	In the First Person	94
	Guggenheim's Water Tower, Fresno, 1921	103
	The Squatters' Camps	105
	The Residual Years	110
	Muscat Pruning	112
	Winter Plowing	113
	The Watch	114
	The Range of Light	118
	My Neighbor's Field	121
	Vulture	126
	Autumn Evening	127
	Hurt Hawks	128
	An Island Called California	131
	Facing West from California's Shores	133
	Adore	135
	A Supermarket in California	150
	Dharma Bums	152
	Dog	156
	Spring Rain	159
	My Mother Would Be a Falconress	161
	I Have Folded My Sorrows	164
	Marin-An	172
	Above Pate Valley	174
	Hay for the Horses	175
	The Opium of the People	176
	On the Coast Near Sausalito	180
	Palo Alto: The Marshes	183
	Los Angeles Notebook	187
	To Sergie My Sweet Old Dog Who Died in Old Age	193
	Wyoming Is an Indian Name	196
	The American Father	198
	Dealing with the Whole Child	215
	Crop Dusting	218
	Fields in Light	219
	Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning	221
	Letter from a Friend in Monterey	227
	Dead Valley Town	229
	Sleeping in a Truck	230
	My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali	231
	weightlifting	235
	The Best Year of Her Life	237
	happy hour	238
	Soldado Razo	240
	The Screamer	252
	The Tomato Field	259
	Thinking Like a Kid	265
	Magnets	267
	A Red Palm	269
	Wilderness Fire	271
	Grocery Shopping with Aunt Geeta	277
	Aunt	281
	The Art of Benny Carter	283
	In Marin Again	284
	A Sunday Sonnet for My Mother's Mother	285
	10 Pm	286
	You Ask About Madness	288
	Softenings	290
	Upstream	292
	a radio with guts	300
	the red porsche	302
	eulogy to a hell of a dame -	304
	The Planter Box	306
	The Linden Tree	311
	Wildflowers	325
	The Ring	329
	The Photos	331
	Precision	333
	San Francisco I: Mary Temple	336
	Farewell to Manzanar	341
	Two Vignettes	354
	America's Wild Child	356
	Don't Forget	362
	Death of a Hog	363
	Scars	364
	Last Shot	365
	Today I'll Sit Still	367
	Graffiti	368
	My Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring	370
	Selected California Bibliography	373
	Credits	391
	About the Editor	396