A beach community north of San Francisco with a thriving community of artists where Brautigan had a house.

In Watermelon Sugar was written in Bolinas.

Literary scenes with strong affiliations to the New American Poetry were in evidence elsewhere in California — most notably Bolinas in the 1970s, when that somewhat remote hippie village north of San Francisco became home to many poets. In particular, the transplanted easterner and Poetry Project veteran Bill Berkson? and his press Big Sky flourished there in the decade, publishing both a magazine and a series of books. Bolinas residents of the period also included Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, David Meltzer, Lewis Warsh?, Tom Clark?, Lewis MacAdams, Philip Whalen, Aram Saroyan, Joanne Kyger, Jim Carroll, and Duncan McNaughton, among others. Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Joe Brainard were among many occasional visitors, with Joe Brainard's Bolinas Journal providing an interesting record of one such extended stay.

from A Little History of the Mimeograph Revolution

Articles

Abbott, Keith. "Brautigan in Bolinas." Exquisite Corpse 4.1 (January-February 1986): 12-13.

Heilig, Steve. "Ianthe Brautigan Interview." Bolinas Hearsay News 28 Jan. 2004: 1-4.

Liberatore, Paul. "Richard Brautigan Dies in Bolinas". San Francisco Chronicle 26 Oct. 1984: 1,18.

Opstedal, Kevin. "A Literary History of the San Andreas Fault: Bolinas Section" Jack Magazine 1(3)

Books

On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing
City Lights Books: 1971

From the back cover: "This is a gathering of poets & writers & artists living on or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Not so much a school of poets as a meeting of those who happen to be at this geographical location at this point in wobbly time, several divergent movements in American poetry of the past 20 years (Black Mountain, San Francisco Beat, 'New York School' of poets) have come together with new Western and mystic elements at the unpaved crossroads of Bolinas." Contains work by Arthur Okamura, Michael Bond, David Meltzer, Max Crosley, Robert Creeley, Ebbe Borregaard, Joanne Kyger, Tom Clark, Bill Berkson, Gordon Baldwin, John Doss, Keith Lampe, Bill Brown, John Thorpe, Lawrence Kearney, Lewis Warsh, and Steven Lazar.

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