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| Kit Robinson The poetry reading and publication party for Kit Robinson's THE
CRAVE Wednesday, November 20, 8 PM The LAB and Atelos co-host a poetry reading and party to celebrate publication of The Crave by the eminent Bay Area poet Kit Robinson. As is often the case with artists (as with athletes) whose moves seem effortless, Kit Robinson writes inimitable works. No one can replicate his moves, no one can equal what he has done with the various procedures he has devised and the bewildering though seemingly simple forms that he has invented. The poems of his new book, The Crave, are all structured around a 3-line stanza capable of seemingly endless variation. Imagine Jelly Roll Morton meeting Emily Dickinson in 21st-century Las Vegas to compose occasional metaphysical stanzas. Throughout his career as a writer, Kit Robinson has scrutinized the way we live, the materials with which we compose our lives and the assumptions that structure them. His writings are masterful, often beautiful, always smart, and very funny. 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. 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. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Fund for Poetry. He was a founding member of the Bay Area’s Poets Theater, which flourished from 1978 to the mid 80s, working both as a playwright and an actor. Atelos was founded in 1995 as a project of Hip’s Road. It is devoted to publishing, under the sign of poetry, writing which challenges the conventional definitions of poetry. All the works published as part of the Atelos project are commissioned specifically for it, and each is involved in some way with crossing traditional genre boundaries. The Atelos project when complete will consist of 50 volumes; The Crave is Volume 13. The project directors and editors are Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz. More info: www.atelos.org/crave.htm |
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