Salt: Volume 1991

by Renee Ashley

Book Overview

Ren?e Ashley describes Salt as an attempt, in part, to mythologize a period of the 1950s and early 1960s in the California Bay Area suburb where she grew up, "a racially rich, economically varied section of town east of El Camino Real--the major road and the 'tracks', so to speak, that one grew up on the right or wrong side of." Many of the poems in the collection explore Ashley's adjustment to the East Coast after a virtual lifetime in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299131440
• ISBN13: 9780299131449
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.5"