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Robinson, Kit

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The Figures

Poetry. "Kit Robinson's writing focuses on the transformation of the common place. It is embedded in the familiar materials of everyday life, but so changed and charged by syntax, sound, and rhythm that multiple meanings 'team up against memory,' making for an imaginative, timeless verse full of siege and moxie" -Jerry Estrin.

The Champagne of Concrete

Potes & Poets Press

Poetry. "There is a pacific, morning coolness about Kit Robinson's 'ICE CUBES.' These poems seem, in their reserved, slightly removed chilliness, to forecast the heat of day, and the fuller poems such as 'Nesting of Layer Protocols,' 'Rented Objects,' and 'Forgotten Algebra' in which the mind that talks inhabits the body that walks" -Alan Davies.

Ice Cubes

Roof Books

Poetry. "BALANCE SHEET is just that, a various, wry look at apparent life both inside and out at midpoint, balanced in the battering flux of myriad informations, all as 'right' and 'wrong' as ever. Kit Robinson's reflective work is articulate and compelling witness to the ominous signs of our time"--Robert Creeley.

Balance Sheet

Poetry. Kit Robinson's many books include BALANCE SHEET, ICE CUBES, WINDOWS, and CHAMPAGNE OF CONCRETE (all available from SPD). His translation from the Russian of Ilya Kutik's ODE ON VISITING THE BELOSARAISK SPIT ON THE SEA OF AZOV was hailed by Charles Simic as truly magnificent. About DEMOCRACY BOULEVARD, Steve Evans comments: DEMOCRACY BOULEVARD is the accident-strewn one-way street studded with industrial parks and hospitality suites that dead-ends just in front of the fortress of Consolidated Capita. Grammar a theater / of parts / moving across the sky // It's been that way a long time / since when / since right now // Clarity / standing up quietly / to magic (Art In The Age Of Electronic Reproduction). Robinson has served as literature director at New Langton Arts in San Francisco and is public relations director at PeopleSoft.

Democracy Boulevard

9: 45

The Post-Apollo Press

“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.

The Messianic Trees

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Adventures in Poetry

Poetry. Of DETERMINATION, poet Ted Greenwald has written: "For anyone wonders what's it doing out, don't stick a head out the window, open, stick a nose into, DETERMINATION, is an end result where language's weather swings ear in and ear out in Kit Robinson's daily great expectations works' beauty elegant in its math, and after, as ever."

Determination

Cuneiform Press

Poetry. California Interest. "There is seemingly no object, image, or idea that couldn't potentially work its way into a Kit Robinson poem. His work is oracular and quotidian, straightforward and complex, offering multiple points of view and stunningly variable textures."&mdash;Richard Roundy "Kit Robinson convects his frontal systems through MARINE LAYER, happy to be enveloped in its fog while somehow always letting its poems breathe. Information sizzles in these data dispatches from the twenty-first century: poetry as a news feed that knows just enough to trust what happens next, lifting the fog&mdash;for us all&mdash;on the movable things of song."&mdash;Miles Champion "As Kit Robinson's MARINE LAYER lifts, we can see how far the work of this major American poet has come. Between tragicomic alignments of social discourse, Robinson's new poetry discovers lyrical and philosophical glimmerings where 'traces of light adhere to the shattered vessels.' Practicing an art of deadpan profundity, Robinson recasts realism as a scene of echoes, of sudden recognitions of language's own cognitions. In so many sharp, canny, sharky, shaky moves, Kit Robinson shows that "simple situations are never that simple."&mdash;Andrew Joron

Marine Layer

BlazeVOX Books

Poetry. If Jelly Roll Morton should meet Emily Dickinson in 21st-century Las Vegas to compose occasional metaphysical stanzas, the result might resemble Kit Robinson's THE CRAVE: beautiful, strange, and ha-ha. Kit Robinson has been active as a poet, teacher, curator, and performer on the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene for 30 years. In addition to THE CRAVE, he is the author of 15 books, the most recent of which (also available from SPD) include CLOUD EIGHT(written with Alan Bernheimer), DEMOCRACY BOULEVARD and BALANCE SHEET. "If we look in the direction/ these words will have to do/ adding to the enormous burden of words/ The entire concept is entirely too conceptual/ all we need is a few good words"-- (from "Return on Word"). Robinson lives in Berkeley and works as a marketing executive in the information technology industry.

The Crave

History & Criticism

Atelos

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