"[California Poetry] is magnificent: comprehensive, beautifully annotated, inclusive, and an elegant instance of book design, as is everything coming from Heyday Press."

—Kevin Starr
State Librarian of California

"Of the books published about the Golden State this year, few offer as rich and delectable a sampler as 'California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present,' which captures the experience of life in California as it has been perceived by 101 poets over the last century and a half, from Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller to Kenneth Rexroth and Charles Bukowski."

—Jonathan Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Best Books of 2004 issue, December 5, 2004

California Poetry , co-edited with Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks, is part of the California Legacy Project, published by Santa Clara University and Heyday Books. Visit the California Poetry Website.

From the cover: "The first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry, this groundbreaking new book presents the work of 101 authors across two centuries. California Poetry includes poets as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Yone Noguchi, Robinson Jeffers, Josephine Miles, Charles Bukowski, Ishmael Reed, Francisco X. Alarcón, and Marilyn Chin. With ample biographical and critical notes for each author, California Poetry goes beyond the limits of the ordinary anthology and provides a detailed and often intimate account of the Golden State's rich but often neglected cultural history."