"An utterly extraordinary collection, and I have nothing but
admiration and highest praise for the selection of the material,
its depth and arrangement. It is comprehensive, lively, done with
great zest, imagination, and a sense of responsibility toward the
state and its literary heritage."--Malcolm Margolin, publisher of
Heyday Books
"This first volume is a big, generous, and inclusive collection
that shows me a host of things that I hadn't read before."--Thom
Gunn
"This long-awaited volume captures the vast panorama of thought,
emotion, and eloquent musings inspired by the landscapes and
crossroads culture of the Golden State. The energy and promise and
adrenaline of the California dream are richly sampled here, along
with its paradoxes and tragic shortcomings. This is a knock-out
anthology: indispensable for anyone who cares about American
literature and the place of California in the national
imagination." --Michael Kowalewski, editor, "Gold Rush: A Literary
Exploration, and former president of the Western Literature
Association
"This marvelous collection of literature creates a sense of time
and place like no other in the world. California starts in native
origin stories; the songs of many cultures and mighty landscapes
rightly open this literary treasury. The literature of exploration,
conquest, and separation is followed by the rise of romance, irony,
adventure and, in the last section, a return to the stories of
cultural diversity. Earthmaker, in the opening Maidu creation myth,
said 'there will always be songs, and all of you will have them.'
That sentiment has endured in "The Literature of California."
--Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley
"Thisfirst volume of "The Literature of California is a
brilliant and almost impossible achievement. For the first time,
the amazing richness of California's literary heritage, from the
intricate and beautiful stories of the first Natives to the
hard-boiled fiction of Los Angeles, is illuminated here amply and
unmistakably and, above all, respectfully. I am awed by these four
editors' stunning labor, love for place and word, and finally,
profound knowledge of their home region. Superlatives come quickly
to mind--extraordinary, monumental, invaluable. I can't wait for
volume two." --Louis Owens, University of New Mexico
"This anthology comes in the nick of time to re-open our minds
to the radically enthusiastic, naiively critical, poems, stories
and tales that are giving shape to one of the most exciting new
cultures on the globe. Volume One curves from the Maidu story that
tells of 'Turtle Island' through Clarence King's ringing hammer and
Muir's mountain devotionalism, through Jeffers' astute and cranky
foresight. We get Dame Shirley's gold country letters and then the
freshly appreciated Jaime de Angulo; Josephine Miles together with
James F. Cain and Nathanael West! Ending this volume with the
tough, acerbic prose of Chester Hymes. Finally- a book to match the
land." --Gary Snyder
"The publication of this anthology--so comprehensive, so vital
in its content, so illustrative of high literary experience--is in
and of itself an important milestone in the evolution of California
as a foundational component of American civilization. "The
Literature of California is more than an anthology. It suggests as
well a vast public work, a Golden Gate Bridge of intellectual and
imaginativematerials. Here in this anthology, to paraphrase Joan
Didion on UC Berkeley, can now be found one of California's best
ideas on itself." --Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of
California
"An extraordinary volume, at once imaginative, academically
sound and meticulously comprehensive."--Carolyn See, author of
"Golden Days
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