Kit Robinson’s poetry defines the present as a continuous breakthrough. From early language experiments like The Dolch Stanzas and “In the American Tree” his work develops, in a stutter-step movement, into a series of complex meditations on the disjunct surfaces of everyday life, its ghostly corporeality. His poetry finds its mastery along an interface of deep attachments, of memory and dream, with equally profound alienations of the built world. Content is a working relation. What results is overwhelmingly affirmative: a map of democratic possibility at the intersection of the aesthetic and the incommensurate. In this collection, Kit Robinson takes his place in the night sky of American poetry as one of its most shapely constellations: the precisionist of broken glass, même.

--Barrett Watten

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