THE MESSIANIC TREES (PAPERBACK) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers."--Anselm Hollo "The Messianic Trees" is the first major collection of thirty years of poetry by Kit Robinson, one of the core members of the Bay Area literary renaissance and language movement. Work in this collection ranges from 1973 to the twenty-first century, including work from thirteen books of Robinson's poetry. "3:15""The immediate impulse" "claimed" "in a light fog" "East Bay" "of night" "I alter nothing" "Save the sound" "of walking later" "through these leaves" In the 1970s and 1980s Kit Robinson performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced "In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets," a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews on KPFA radio in Berkeley (with Lyn Hejinian). He has published seventeen books of poetry and has also taught poetry writing in schools through the California Poets in the Schools program. Robinson's awards include a Fund for Poetry Prize and an NEA creative writing fellowship. Features Summary Selected Poetry ranging from early work in 1973 up to the early 21st century Author Kit Robinson Publisher Adventures in Poetry Release date 20081120 Pages 272 ISBN 0-9761612-6-5 ISBN 13 978-0-9761612-6-4