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"San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it," according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building's pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city's history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. David Kipen's lively introduction revisits the city's literary heritage-from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg-as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This rich and evocative volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.
San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- 1930s. --- allen ginsberg. --- americana. --- bay area. --- bret harte. --- california history. --- california. --- city life. --- coast. --- famous landmarks. --- golden gate bridge. --- great depression. --- historic buildings. --- interwar period. --- jade snow wong. --- kenneth rexroth. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- san francisco history. --- san francisco. --- transamerica building. --- travel. --- united states. --- urban. --- wpa.
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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings-Peru and Paris-which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo-and Latin American poetry-to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.
Vallejo, César, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Peruvian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Vallejo, César, --- Vallejo Mendoza, César Abraham, --- Mendoza, César Abraham Vallejo, --- Vallejo, César Abraham, --- Valʹekho, Sesar, --- Valliecho, Kaisar, --- Vallejo, Cholo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vallejo, César, - 1892-1938 - Criticism and interpretation --- aesthetics. --- american literature. --- avant garde. --- canon. --- cesar vallejo. --- classic. --- international modernism. --- interwar paris. --- interwar period. --- latin america. --- latin american poetry. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- lyric modernity. --- modernism. --- modernity. --- multicultural. --- paris. --- peru. --- peruvian literature. --- poetry. --- politics. --- south america. --- western canon. --- world literature. --- Vallejo, César, - 1892-1938
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