James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Canary in a Coal MineĢ16 pp | Paperback | 2006 | 5.5 x 0.6 x 8. As long as marvelous voices like these continue to emerge, there is hope. A few of the characters were actual figures during that time, and the author keeps the majority of the facts historically accurate. It was about the 1906 earthquake and fire that virtually devastated San Francisco.

As we commemorate the centennial of one of the world's great disasters, let us celebrate another phenomenon for which San Francisco is known: it is the birthplace of great writers. 1906 - James Dalessandro - Book on CD 5 stars I loved this story. WritersCorps has found some remarkable voices, as pure and beautiful as any you might find in the most acclaimed journals. WritersCorps and its bright young poets make San Francisco a city of possibility, where the imagination truly leads us to a more solid future. Each one articulates its own universe using words as light to help us scramble across the frightful chasms that exist between all of us. The tectonic upheavals of adolescence, urban living and adult/civic failures have sparked these fierce and tender poems. Rodriguez, author of Always Running and My Nature is Hunger Solid Ground is solid work deserving of serious attention. /rebates/2f1906-James-Dalessandro2fbook2f15923&. The poems on these pages are a moving story, eloquent, fragile, courageous, and shattering.Īmazing metaphors dance in between the seamless lines and white spaces of these poems, proof once again that young people are natural to poetry, that they are carrying most of the poetry of our time, and that something is amiss when we don't respond poetically as a world, as community, to their dreams, their ideas, their sentiments, and their hopes. Urn:oclc:855280583 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120210154753 Scanner hundred years after San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906, WritersCorps gathers the powerful voices of San Francisco youth reflecting on solidity, violence, upheaval, and regeneration in their lives and in the world. O元932373W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.53 Pages 376 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0811849414 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:43:05 Boxid IA170301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Francisco Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Uncorrected proof.

1906 by James Dalessandro