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The
"Fallen Western Star" Wars
edited
by Jack Foley
When
Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?," published
his equally provocative essay, "Fallen Western Star: The
Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region," he knew
that certain quarters would be up in arms.
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Prominent
California literati were quick to defend the San Francisco Scene
and wrote articles attacking Gioia. Others
attacked the attackers. The entire exhilarating, sometimes hilarious
exchange appears in The "Fallen Western Star" Wars.
The
book includes essays and letters by Jack Foley, Dana Gioia, Howard
Junker, Michael Lind, David Mason, Jacqueline Marcus, Jonah Raskin,
Richard Silberg, and Scott Timberg.
"Jack
Foley is doing great things in articulating the poetic consciousness
of San Francisco."
—Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
Published by Scarlet Tanager Books.
ISBN 0-9670224-4-4, Paper, 86 pages, $14.00
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