Doubiago, Sharon

Love on the Streets

ISBN: 9780822960089
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. First Edition. “Sharon was living up in Mendocino during the 1970s, having come from Los Angeles. She was just finding her wings as a poet and would come down to San Francisco on occasion to check out what was going on. And then later she staged “Readings of SF Poets” up in Mendocino–to which we would migrate en masse up Hwy. 1 along the coast for a get-away weekend up in the country near the ocean. I met her in the Trieste Caffe, which was THE bohemian hangout in San Francisco in those days. She gravitated towards Jack Hirschman and was very fond of his work and his vision. I would have to say that I think Jack has to be considered her major influence. He certainly was then–and might still be even to this day. But she was also very interested in women writers. H.D. had a major impact on her and her own brand of feminism. And there were others. While she wasn't directly involved in readings and activist events that were going on in San Francisco during those years, she was an avid student and taking it all in by osmosis, and I can say that her beauty and presence was felt by all whenever she would come to town. She’s stayed true to her vision, which was to become a poet. She just had a major collection of her selected poetry, Naked to the Earth, published in 2017.”--Thomas Rain Crowe, The Thomas Rain Crowe Archive [#1010], pg 34. Sharon Doubiago (b. 1941) is the author of eleven collections of award-winning poetry, including the recent Naked to the Earth. Psyche Drives the Coast won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She’s a recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships, and is a National Book Award nominee. Doubiago’s work includes, South America Mi Hija, The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O, and The Visit. Her award-winning memoirs are The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, My Father’s Love, Vols 1 &2; My Beard is a memoir in the form of individual stories rather than the on-going narrative of traditional memoir. Offered today is the 2008 collection of poetry Love on the Streets. Love on the Streets is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, Hard Country (1982 [see item #7181]) and South America Mi Hija (1992) and from the collections Psyche Drives the Coast (1990) and Body and Soul (2000) , plus new poems. Hard Country takes place in 1976, on a journey across the U.S. with a lover, climaxing on the lake where his mother drowned herself when he was ten. South America Mi Hija is a journey the poet made with her 15 year-old daughter to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Psyche Drives the Coast are poems written while Doubiago lived mainly on the road, and in diverse, passionate communities of poets from Mendocino to the Canadian border. Body and Soul was written while she was a resident of Oregon, and the new poems are written from her present home in San Francisco. From the collection of Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), scholar, writer, and founding member of the Baby Beat Generation. For more information on the Thomas Rain Crowe archive (assembled & curated by Third Mind Books), see our book Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (item #3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (see item #1010), which contains several excerpts and quotations from the book as well as a full listing of the archive’s contents, which are now being offered for sale individually on the Third Mind Books site. Trade format softcover original. First edition though not explicated as such at copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. In very fine condition with slight wear to fine edges and minor smudging to front and back covers. Very Fine. [Item #7584]

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