The California Poem
Eleni Sikelianos

“Eleni Sikelianos’s The California Poem proves an altogether singular proposal, turning usual, simplifying ‘time’ into visionary space, bounded by endless, insistent ocean. Her melding of persons and place makes both contemporary and eternal, a remarkable ‘California dreaming,’ which can well carry all the old echoes. So she does what only a master poet can do—discovers the world once again.”—Robert Creeley

California, hedonistically beautiful and increasingly endangered, is the star of this book-length poem which flies through time, memory, science, history, and imagination, on a voyage across the Golden State’s landscape and through the history of its diverse cultures.

Also Available by this Author:

• Body Clock
• Earliest Worlds