false 6297481 1 <p>"I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers."-Anselm Hollo</p><p><i>The Messianic Trees</i> 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.</p><p><b>"3:15"</b></p><i>The immediate impulse</i><br><i>claimed</i><br><i>in a light fog</i><br><i>East Bay</i><br><i>of night</i><br><i>I alter nothing</i><br><i>Save the sound</i><br><i>of walking later</i><br><i>through these leaves</i><br><p>In the 1970s and 1980s <b>Kit Robinson</b> performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced <i>In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets</i>, 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.</p> 6482053 1 11 2008 The Messianic Trees total:10|5:8|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:0| 10 47 23 2 5 0 false false Fri Mar 06 06:35:29 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 06:37:07 -0700 2009
Happily, he was here last week and I had the opportunity to introduce him.

Here's the introduction:

KIT ROBINSON INTRODUCTION
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