Train I Ride is a meditation on reading, writing, rhythm and tempo. In a sequence of prose fragments, the author lays down tracks through a landscape that is itself always sliding away, with nods along the way to precursors including Junior Parker, Hemingway, Ted Berrigan, Clint Eastwood, Steve Lacy, On Kawara, Gertrude Stein, Compay Segundo, Robert Bresson, Rimbaud, Minnie Minoso, and Warren Sonbert. “The words book.”

In the 1970s and 1980s Kit Robinson performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets, a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews on KPFA radio in Berkeley (with Lyn Hejinian). He has published nineteen books of poetry, most recently The Messianic Trees, 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.

40 pages; 5.5x8.5 inches; stapled and bound into printed wrappers
ISBN 1 897388 42 X | 978 1 897388 42 6
200 copies