The San Francisco Poem

An epic poem written to a singular American city, unfolding in step with a burgeoning love story

No city bears the marks of the vertiginous change that has taken place in American life like San Francisco. Amid its palimpsest of indelible history and strange artifacts of the future flicker scenes from the lives of its people—and The San Francisco poem is an homage to the ecstasies and vagaries of those stories. Unfurling over the course of a year, every poem representing one day, this collect...