{"product_id":"the-messianic-trees-selected-1976-2003-poems-9780976161264","title":"The Messianic Trees: Selected 1976-2003 Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers.\"--Anselm Hollo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Messianic Trees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"3:15\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe immediate impulse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eclaimed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ein a light fog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast Bay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eof night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI alter nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSave the sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eof walking later\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethrough these leaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 1980s \u003cb\u003eKit Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced \u003ci\u003eIn the American Tree: New Writing by Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adventures in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780976161264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Kit Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729528787125,"sku":"9780976161264","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e1c81a82-4405-41a6-8c40-1d454e7318c6.jpg?v=1675803192","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-messianic-trees-selected-1976-2003-poems-9780976161264","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}