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PublisherCounterpoint Press

ISBN-101619029251

ISBN-139781619029255

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Book TitleTracks Along the Left Coast : Jaime De Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicNative American Languages, Folklore & Mythology, Adventurers & Explorers, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, American / General, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Linguistics / General

GenreLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAndrew Schelling

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-005032

ReviewsPraise for Tracks Along the Left Coast "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things--presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." --Stephen Sparks, Lithub Praise for Jaime de Angulo "One of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered." --William Carlos Williams "The American Ovid." --Ezra Pound "It is no effort, of course, to be pleased by the sure touch-stories and animal drawings that are poetry, innate, humor-born, and wise." --Marianne Moore Praise for Andrew Schelling "Digging up a forgotten local history, dusting off craggy chunks of bottom-of-the-barrel lore and tracking down faded dirt track origins for quirky place names, Schelling's poetics offers the kind of depth and bedrock sanity you need to safely make your way around these days. Perhaps that's what most enthuses me about [his] works--their spirited engagement with the worlds of the everyday, ecology, local history and politics, translation, and Sanskrit-savvy scholarly quips from the Heart Sutra--a world so diverse it begins to resemble life itself, and more, something like what it means to be a citizen (a word Schelling prefers to 'writer' or worse, 'poet') in these topsy-turvy times." --Tyler Doherty, Jacket Magazine, Praise for Tracks Along the Left Coast " Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo's legacy." -- Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things--presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." --Stephen Sparks, Lithub Praise for Jaime de Angulo "One of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered." --William Carlos Williams "The American Ovid." --Ezra Pound "It is no effort, of course, to be pleased by the sure touch-stories and animal drawings that are poetry, innate, humor-born, and wise." --Marianne Moore Praise for Andrew Schelling "Digging up a forgotten local history, dusting off craggy chunks of bottom-of-the-barrel lore and tracking down faded dirt track origins for quirky place names, Schelling's poetics offers the kind of depth and bedrock sanity you need to safely make your way around these days. Perhaps that's what most enthuses me about [his] works--their spirited engagement with the worlds of the everyday, ecology, local history and politics, translation, and Sanskrit-savvy scholarly quips from the Heart Sutra--a world so diverse it begins to resemble life itself, and more, something like what it means to be a citizen (a word Schelling prefers to 'writer' or worse, 'poet') in these topsy-turvy times." --Tyler Doherty, Jacket Magazine, [Praise for Jaime de Angulo] "One of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered." --William Carlos Williams "The American Ovid." --Ezra Pound "It is no effort, of course, to be pleased by the sure touch-stories and animal drawings that are poetry, innate, humor-born, and wise." --Marianne Moore [Praise for Andrew Schelling] "Digging up a forgotten local history, dusting off craggy chunks of bottom-of-the-barrel lore and tracking down faded dirt track origins for quirky place names, Schelling's poetics offers the kind of depth and bedrock sanity you need to safely make your way around these days. Perhaps that's what most enthuses me about [his] works -- their spirited engagement with the worlds of the everyday, ecology, local history and politics, translation, and Sanskrit-savvy scholarly quips from the Heart Sutra -- a world so diverse it begins to resemble life itself, and more, something like what it means to be a citizen (a word Schelling prefers to 'writer' or worse, 'poet') in these topsy-turvy times." --Tyler Doherty, Jacket Magazine, Praise for Tracks Along the Left Coast " Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo's legacy." -- Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things--presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." --Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub "Jaime de Angulo! If you could corral into one volume all the legends he inspired, you would already have given us a book worth reading, but poet Andrew Schelling has been able, in this magnificent, long-awaited biography, to reshape the myth into a human being. In a larger frame, Tracks Along the Left Coast illustrates something of the troubling ease with which Modernism, hand in hand with the new science of anthropology, fixed and adapted what it imagined as 'the Primitive.' As his personal evanescence flickered and burned through the decades, de Angulo shot direction into the skies; we see why generations of Western poets, musicians, and artists were drawn to him, beyond that brilliant intellect. Through California foothills his horse galloped him, naked but for a jockstrap: if you blinked you would miss him." --Kevin Killian, author of Poet Be Like God and Impossible Princess

Synopsis" Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo's legacy." -- Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things--presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." --Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old-time stories--a bedrock of the literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo's linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific Coast. In each retelling, through each storyteller, stories are continually revivified, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast , weaving together the story of de Angulo's life with the story of the land and the people, languages, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied., " Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo's legacy." -- Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo--'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo, ' among other things--presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." --Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old-time stories--a bedrock of the literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo's linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific Coast. In each retelling, through each storyteller, stories are continually revivified, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast , weaving together the story of de Angulo's life with the story of the land and the people, languages, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied.

LC Classification NumberGN21.A6S35 2017