Reading Portland

<p><i>Reading Portland</i> 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.</p>