Califlora : a literary field guide / edited by Terry Beers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beers, Terry, 1955-

Series:

California legacy book

A California legacy book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Literary collections.

California.

Plants--California.

Plants.

American literature--California.

American literature.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xx, 277 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday ; Santa Clara, Calif. : Santa Clara University, [2012]

Summary:

Literary field trip through an astonishing variety of things that grow in California. It adds the sensibilities of the writers who will surprise us with fact, fiction and just wonderment at growing things .

Contents:

Desertland

Barrel Cactus

Miguel del Barco, from The Natural History of Baja California 3

Common Sagebrush

Mary Austin. "Sagebrush Country" 6

Fan Palm

George Wharton James, from The Wonders of the Colorado Desert 18

Greasewood

Dorothy Ramon and Eric Elliott, "Smelling Greasewood after Rain" 23

Jojoba

Miguel del Barco, from The Natural History of Baja California 26

Joshua Tree

Horace Bell, from On the Old West Coast 31

Jumping Cholla

E. Yale Dawson, from The Cacti of California 33

Mojave Yucca

Dorothy Ramon and Eric Elliott, "Picking Yucca Flowers" 37

Singleleaf Pinyon

Lester Rowntree, from Flowering Shrubs of California 40

Grassland and Chaparral

Amole

Charles Francis Saunders, from With the Flower/ and Tree/ in California 45

Baby Blue Eyes

Bertha M. Rice, from Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers 49

Black Mustard

Helen Hunt Jackson, from Ramona 55

California Goldfields

Mary Elizabeth Parsons, from The Wild Flowers of California 59

California Poppy

Ina Coolbrith, "Copa de Oro (California Poppy)" 61

Wilma Elisabeth McDaniel" First Spring in California, 1936" 61

Alma Luz Villanueva, from Luna's California Poppies 63

Common Manzanita

Gary Snyder, "Control Burn" 75

Common Sunflower

Yvor Winters," Wild Sunflower" 78

Lupine

Lester Rowntree, "Lupins" 81

Oxalis

Kevin Hearle, "Sour Grass" 94

Purple Needlegrass

David Amme, "Grassland Heritage: Stewardship of a Changed Landscape" 97

Toyon

Luther Burbank, "Santa Rosa, Dec. 16, 1919" 106

Kenneth Rexroth, "Human, Avian, Vegetable, Blood" 107

Tule

Mary Cone, from Two Yean in California 109

Wild Oat

Helen Pinkerton, "Coast Hillside" 113

Coastal Forest and Woodland

Broad-Leaved Cattail

Linda Yamane, from In Full View 117

Butterfly Mariposa

Ina Coolbrith, "The Mariposa Lily" 120

California Flannelbush

Charles Francis Saunders, from With the Flowers and Trees in California 122

California Laurel

Janet Lewis, from "Picnic, 1943 126

California Pitcher Plant

Mary Elizabeth Parsons, from The Wild Flowers of California 129

Coast Redwood

Miguel Costansó,"Sunday. 15 October [1769]" 132

Richard Preston, from The Wild Trees 133

Marin Checker Lily

James Roof, from "The Somber Monks of Point Reyes" 138

Monterey Cypress

Robinson Jeffers, "Granite and Cypress 141

Monterey Pine

Robert Louis Stevenson, from Old and New Pacific Capitals 143

Pacific Poison Oak

Helen Pinkerton, "Nature Note: The California Poison Oak" 147

White Poplar

Louise Wagenknecht, from White Poplar, Black Locust 149

Montane Forest and Woodland

California Milkweed

William Shipley, from The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim 155

California Oak

Clarence King, from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada 157

Yvor Winters, "The California Oaks" 160

Giant Sequoia

James M. Hatchings, from Scenes oj Wonder and Curiosity in California 163

Donald Culross Pearrie, from A Natural History of Western Trees 169

Incense Cedar

Gary Snyder, "Burned Out" 182

Mountain Hemlock

Harriet Monroe, "The mountain hemlock droops..." 185

Pacific Madrone

Brer Harre, "Madrono" 187

Yvor Winters, "The Mansanka" 188

Penstemon

Lester Rowntree, from "On a Trail of Beauty" 190

Ponderosa Pine

Donald Culross Peattie, from A Natural History of Western Trees 193

Quaking Aspen

Claudia MonPere, "Carving" and "Aspen, 1898" 204

Shorthorn Steer's-Head

Lester Rowntree, from "On a Trail of Beauty" 208

Snow Plant

Sarah J, Pettinos, "The Snow Plant of the Sierras" 211

Charles Warren Stoddard, "'The Snow-Plant" 212

Sugar Pine

William Shipley, from The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hánc'ibyjim 215

Lucy Thompson, from To the American Indian 216

Western Juniper

John Muir, from My First Summer in the Sierra 218

Range-Cropland

Avocado

Gary Snyder, "Avocado" 221

Cannabis

T. Coraghessan Boyle, from Budding Prospects 223

Common Wheat

Frank Norris, from The Octopus 229

Grape

David Mas Masumoto, from Epitaph for a Peach 237

Joy Sterling, from A Cultivated Life 240

Orange

Sidney Herbert Burchell, from Jacob Peek: Orange Grower 248

M. F. K. Fisher, from Among Friends 251

Pear

Richard Stewart, "Pear Orchard" 255

Persimmon

Kevin Hearle/Harvest" 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781597141611

1597141615

OCLC:

721890538