Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / Bishop George Berkeley -- I become a student / Lincoln Steffens -- The "English courses" of the University of California / Frank Norris -- It is good to be here / Benjamin Ide Wheeler -- The Berkeley heroine / John F. Boyd -- The proud dig and the lazy student / James Hopper -- From Martin Eden / Jack London -- Walks about Berkeley / Cornelius Beach Bradley -- A house in Berkeley / Henry F. May -- Berkeley in the thirties / John Kenneth Galbraith -- From A jar of dreams / Yoshiko Uchida -- From Torchlight to Valhalla / Gale Wilhelm -- Berkeley 1947 / Thomas Parkinson -- From The year of the oath / George R. Stewart -- To make a summer / Josephine Miles -- Berkeley / Simone de Beauvoir -- La Japonesa / Raquel Scherr --

From Full House / Shelley Singer -- A poem slow beginning / Robert Duncan -- Berkeley in time of plague / Jack Spicer -- From The Dharma Bums / Jack Kerouac -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- There is / Louis Simpson -- Raw material / Suzanne Lipsett -- On Cedar Street / Susan Griffin -- From The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon -- From Seize the Time / Bobby Seale -- From Ella Price's Journal / Dorothy Bryant -- The compleat werewolf / Anthony Boucher -- From Berkeley Beat : Tales from a Private Investigator / Glenn Myles -- The city is so beautiful from the roof / Dale Pendell -- From the Last Days of Louisiana Red / Ishmael Reed -- From Changing Places / David Lodge --

Adhesive : for Earlene / Robert Hass

The Bancroft way / C. L. Babcock

The evangelical emissary / Czeslaw Milosz

The Robbie's dance and Herrick Hospital, fifth floor / Al Young

From the Transmigration of Timothy Archer / Philip K. Dick

April17-22 81 / Larry Eigner

Last breath / Laura Chester

From Movement / Valerie Miner

Berkeley explained / Alice Kahn

From Tripmaster Monkey / Maxine Hong Kingston

Fushia and Flatlands backyard infrastructure / John Oliver Simon

Several errands / Brenda Hillman

A Berkeley life / Janice Gould

For Moe who died / Julia Vinograd.