The Messianic Trees

First major collection of 30 years of poetry from Kit Robinson, one of the core members of the Bay Area literary renaissance and language movement. Using materials from news media, work place documents, popular culture, dreams, financial institutions, and the technology industry as well as from the daily debris of neighborhoods and scraps of domesticity, Kit Robinson’s work is about negotiating a way through the contemporary milieu in quest of a good history. The writing can be quick and it can be hilarious, but it speaks from experience and with that experience there has come wisdom.