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Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.

Table of Contents:
The Pull of the Rivers: A Preface, by Peter Donahue / xv Acknowledgments / xxi Reading Portland: An Introduction, by John Trombold / xxiii Early Portland: Muddy Streets and Destiny MATTHEW DEADY / 3 Portland-on-Wallamet HARVEY W. SCOTT / 6 From History of Portland Position and Advantages of Portland Settlement and Early Times JANET STEVENSON / 10 From Departure The Third Month The Fourth Month The Fifth Month ROBERT ORMOND CASE / 20 From Empire Builders 1850—Interlude Once to Every Warrior ALFRED POWERS / 28 From Long Way to Frisco THERESA TRUCHOT / 31 From Charcoal Wagon Boy Smuggler Catchers ERNEST HAYCOX / 34 From The Long Storm MALCOLM CLARK JR. / 40 The War on the Webfoot Saloon STEWART HOLBROOK / 50 The Three Sirens of Portland RUDYARD KIPLING / 56 From From Sea to Sea JOAQUIN MILLER / 59 From Memorie and Rime The New and the Old JOEL REDON / 62 From The Road to Zena E. KIMBARK MACCOLL / 66 From The Shaping of a City A Wide Angle View STEPHEN DOUGLAS PUTER / 71 From Looters of the Public Domain History of the Picture that Elected Hermann to Congress ANONYMOUS / 74 The Life Story of a Japanese Servant ANONYMOUS / 78 The Portland Exposition JAMES STEVENS / 85 From Big Jim Turner Little Pretty and the Seven Bulls STEVEN LOWENSTEIN / 98 From The Jews of Oregon The Story of Aaron and Jeanette Meier Modern Portland: The Rose City CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD / 105 Portland's Feast of Roses LOUISE BRYANT / 112 Two Judges EVELYN MCDANIEL GIBB / 114 From Two Wheels North BARBARA BARTLETT HARTWELL / 120 The Wood Household JOHN REED / 126 Almost Thirty ALAN CHEUSE / 132 From The Bohemians ALAN HART / 147 From Doctor Mallory SANDY POLISHUK / 152 From Sticking to the Union MICHAEL MUNK / 160 Portland's "Silk Stocking Mob" LAURENCE PRATT / 168 From I Remember Portland Chinatown Bicycle JAMES BEARD / 172 From Delights and Prejudices NANCY NOON KENDALL / 181 From The Wise in Heart MARY BARNARD / 191 From Assault on Mount Helicon BEVERLY CLEARY / 201 From A Girl from Yamhill High School Freshmen Wise Fools Love and the Spelling Bee CLYDE RICE / 210 From Nordi's Gift TOM MCALLISTER and DAVID B. MARSHALL / 215 Hometown ELIZABETH MCLAGAN / 219 From A Peculiar Paradise Sober, Industrious, and Honest KATHRYN HALL BOGLE / 225 An American Negro Speaks of Color AUGUSTA CLAWSON / 230 From Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder JOHN OKADA / 237 From No-No Boy LAWSON FUSAO INADA / 247 The Flower Girls MARIE ROSE WONG / 258 From Sweet Cakes, Long Journey Portland Proper: Neighborhoods, Activists, Nature, and Beer ROBERT DIETSCHE / 265 Where Jump Was a Noun DON CARPENTER / 274 From The Class of '49 May Fete Day RICHARD NEUBERGER / 280 My Hometown Is Good Enough for Me PHIL STANFORD / 287 From Portland Confidential Back to Business as Usual The Tantalizing Candy Renee Hot Times at the Desert Room GARY SNYDER / 292 From The Practice of the Wild The Same Old Song and Dance PAUL PINTARICH / 293 From History By the Glass MIKAL GILMORE / 304 From Shot in the Heart Settling Down Strangers KIM STAFFORD / 314 The Separate Hearth SHANA ALEXANDER / 321 From Astonishing Elephant The Elephant's Child RUTH BARNETT and DOUG BAKER / 329 From They Weep on My Doorstep ALBERT DRAKE / 336 From One Summer Lost Lake Scotch Broom Smells At the Branch URSULA K. LEGUIN / 343 From The Lathe of Heaven KENNETH STERN / 353 From Loud Hawk A Bullet in a Guy's Head ALEXANDER PATTERSON / 358 Terrasquirma and the Engines of Social Change in 1970s Portland ED EDMO / 367 After Celilo RICHARD HUGO / 371 From Death and the Good Life JEWEL LANSING / 384 From Deadly Games in City Hall LOUIS MASSON / 390 From the Wheelhouse of the Western Cougar DAVID JAMES DUNCAN / 395 From The River Why Little, But Strong Closing the Door WALT CURTIS / 402 From Mala Noche and Other "Illegal" Adventures Immigrants Notes on the Mexican Kids DANIEL CHACÓN / 409 From Chicano Chicanery Aztlan, Oregon DOUGLAS COUPLAND / 420 From Generation X MTV Not Bullets Transform Welcome Home from Vietnam, Son ROBIN CODY / 427 From Voyage of a Summer Sun The Urban Waterway WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON / 433 From River-Horse Robot of the River Contemporary Portland: Scenes and Reflections ELINOR LANGER / 439 From A Hundred Little Hitlers The Death of Mulugeta Seraw Underground SUSAN ORLEAN / 445 Figures in a Mall ED GOLDBERG / 454 From Dead Air KATHERINE DUNN / 463 From Truck LEE WILLIAMS / 468 From After Nirvana CARL ABBOTT / 473 From Greater Portland Ramona Quimby's Portland: The Nicest City Possible? DAN NEWTH / 481 Chillin' JAN MORRIS / 482 The Other Portland PHILLIP MARGOLIN / 486 From Ties That Bind APRIL HENRY / 491 From Buried Diamonds MARTHA GIES / 495 From Up All Night Obdulia at the Rose Garden KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE / 501 From Riverwalking The Willamette DONALD MILLER / 503 From Blue Like Jazz Shifts CHUCK PALAHNIUK / 508 From Fugitives and Refugees Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland xii READING PORTLAND MATTHEW STADLER / 512 From The Stranger Brown at the Edges with a Chewy White Center SALLIE TISDALE / 518 Portland from the Air ELIZABETH WOODY / 524 Buckskin MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE / 526 From The Effects of Light PETER ROCK / 530 From The Bewildered KEVIN CANTY / 537 From Winslow in Love DAVID OATES / 541 From City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary Boots on the Ground in Sherwood Forest Selected Bibliography / 549 Citations and Permissions / 563

About the Author :
John Trombold teaches at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Peter Donahue teaches at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and is the author of many short stories and books, including the novel Madison House. Together, they edited Reading Seattle: The City in Prose.

Review :
"John Trombold and Peter Donahue's Reading Portland: The City in Prose could be used as an urban history of the Rose City; but more effectively, it is a celebration of Portland's urban life..This collection of authors is superior to any other urban anthologies I have found. I cannot help but wonder if Trombold and Donahue envision a City in Prose series..I anxious await Reading Chicago, Reading Boston, and Reading Las Vegas." (Columbia) "[A]ny literate person who loves Portland will enjoy and profit from the readings in this book. Reading Portland is an investigation of the nature of a place, an inductive exploration into the character of a city done with an instrument called prose. Any Portlander who loves this city should have Reading Portland on his or her shelf in order to read and reread tales of the tribe that lives at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers." (Oregon Historical Quarterly) "It is the author's diversity of sentiment, style, and time period which creates an interesting and varied perspective on Portland, and ultimately gives the reader great insight into the city's history." (Portland Mercury)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295997247
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 608
  • Sub Title: The City in Prose
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0295997249
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Reading Portland
  • Weight: 1026 gr


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