The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems

by Dennis Schmitz, Viola Weinberg

An anthology of poems by Sacramento writers.

152 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Dennis Schmitz was raised in Iowa and earned degrees at Loras College and the University of Chicago. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including About Night: Selected and New Poems (Field). He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Shelley Memorial Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the 92Y Discovery award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught for over thirty years at Sacramento State University and served as a Poet Laureate of Sacramento.

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading this anthology was like digging through the slush pile of a literary magazine...a lot of awful narrative pieces, a few poems that were almost there, and some that were solid and finished. Nothing great, nothing inspiring or innovative. Is there no experimentation in Sacramento?