Background
Schmitz, Dennis Mathew was born on August 11, 1937 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Son of Anthony Peter and Roselyn Schmitz.
( Alongside "truth is stranger than fiction," Dennis Schm...)
Alongside "truth is stranger than fiction," Dennis Schmitz suggests "the truth is all in the pieces." In Truth Squad humor abounds, and funky, overstated characters—such as grafitti artists and poetry guerillas—are tested by weird circumstances. Their dilemmas are anecdotal and absurd like early two-reel comedies. The book’s humor is to rescue, to re-direct the effects of "the storm / against yourself,"and to disrupt us enough to reveal who and what we really are. This is energetic new work from the Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Dennis Schmitz is the author of seven books of poetry and has received numerous awards for his work. He taught for more than 30 years at California State University at Sacramento.
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(Dennis Schmitz has provoked praise, delight and amazement...)
Dennis Schmitz has provoked praise, delight and amazement among his readers. His complex, energetic poems, diving fearlessly into the physical world in pursuit of spiritual meanings, have proved rich and rewarding to those who have encountered them. This collection, the inaugural work of the FIELD Poetry Series, draws on five previous volumes.
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Dennis Schmitz is an original among American poets because of his knotty, lucid classical sensibility. These bucolic poems and elegies explore such experiences as the birth of a foal, the slow, miraculous growth of a glacier, and how a man can “grow from the inside/like a tree breaks whole from the seed.” These are the kind of poems one returns to when one feels that edgy, unmistakeable, pure desire to read poetry in “all its rawness.”
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Schmitz, Dennis Mathew was born on August 11, 1937 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Son of Anthony Peter and Roselyn Schmitz.
He graduated from Loras College and the University of Chicago, where he met and married Loretta Doctorate"Agostino in 1960. They have five children together.
He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and California State University, Sacramento. His former students include Raymond Carver, Charlene Ungstad, Gary Short, and Gary Thompson. He opposes the death penalty and protests executions in California every time they take place.
His work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly, American Poetry, The Nation, Paris, the Chicago, and Zyzzyva.
He lives in Sacramento. Schmitz is the kind of poet whose work is unknown to the general public but eagerly read by other writers in top literary magazines like Field or Antaeus.
In this volume, he continues the exciting work he has already done with dramatic monologues and religious meditations set on California farms or in the construction sites, flophouses, and movie palaces of Chicago.
(Since the publication of We Weep for Our Strangeness in 1...)
(Dennis Schmitz is an original among American poets becaus...)
( Alongside "truth is stranger than fiction," Dennis Schm...)
(Dennis Schmitz has provoked praise, delight and amazement...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Association Writing Programs.
Married Loretta D'Agostino, August 20, 1960. Children— Anne, Sara, Martha, Paul, Matthew.