San Antonio College Library

"In Spanning the Gate the history of the most daring and beautiful bridge ever built is told at last. Stephen Cassady's powerful narrative is studded with stories told by the bridgeworkers themselves, the unflappable adventurers who gloried in the intensity and unpredictability of each moment. Nearly 125 photographs of bridge construction, many never published before, bring the Golden Gate project stunningly to life, as step by unbelievable step it...

Called one of the wonders of the modern world, the Golden Gate Bridge is a monument to technology. This program tells the story of Joseph Strauss, an engineering visionary who won the support necessary to create a masterpiece of design and function.

Contains a dramatic version of the short story Garden with the seven gates.

This new collection contains poetry by northern Californian writers who began to publish no earlier than 1962, have completed at least a second full-length book of poetry and have created a mature art, distinct in itself. The selections, spanning the poets' careers to date, draw outstanding poems from unpublished manuscripts as well as from earlier volumes and are complemented by essays written by the poets themselves. The essays are about the writing...