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Linehan Press is pleased to announce the publication of Passing
Through by acclaimed poet David Gitin. This book, a collection
spanning thirty years, is Gitin's eighth book of poetry. Passing
Through is Gitin's first book in sixteen years, representing his
largest collection since 1979. It includes six poems never published in
book form in addition to revisions of earlier work.
David Gitin, born in Buffalo, NY, was influenced by the work and
friendship of Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley before
moving to San Francisco in the mid-60s where he co-founded Poets Theater,
edited Bricoleur, produced radio programs for KPFA in Berkeley, and
associated with many of the Beat poets and legendary musicians of the
time.
Then in 1974, after living in the rural town of Cotati, California, and
Madison, Wisconsin, he settled in Monterey, California, to teach Creative
Writing at Monterey Peninsula College. He also worked as a jazz disc
jockey at KAZU for nineteen years and often performs his poetry in
collaboration with musicians.
Among his hundreds of publications, Gitin's
work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York
Times, and Poetry Nippon. His work can currently be seen
in The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004, The Cafι
Review, Voleur
de Feu, Big
Bridge, and others.
Refer to the 2003 Monterey County Weekly article "The
Beat Goes On" for more background on David Gitin.
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 Photo by
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Comments on Passing Through:
"The poems in Passing Through are charming, pliant,
palpable."
-- Anne Waldman "Exactly. Thats a word
that comes to mind a lot as I read & reread these poems. Gitins
poetry occupies a territory that suggests his interest in any number
of Objectivists & New Americans . . . poets for whom the
precision of perception seems very often the point of pleasure in it
all." [more]
-- Ron Silliman "I was pulled in and read
through it. The experience was delightful. Every phrase is
compelling."
-- Lyn Hejinian "The lyrical and
minimalist poems of Passing Through are fearless. Their precision
and economy, the oddly solid core of meaning that he wraps in a
handful of words, is a testament to his courage in a world of
compulsion and excess." [more]
-- Ryan Masters "I enjoy reading these
poems over and over. They are what poetry should be about, a kind of
finesse that is all too rare."
-- Kit Robinson |
Comments on previous work:
"Gitin is a master of subtle rhythms that ear and eye blend on
the field of the senses."
-- Michael McClure "A lot of commonsense
appreciation of 'minute particulars,' maybe the clearest sort of
writing anyone can do."
-- Allen Ginsberg "David Gitin's an
old-time serious poet, with a happily light touch. Dance to the
music!"
-- Robert Creeley "The work is beautiful."
-- John Cage "These carefully selected
perceptions in airy, delicate balance, unburdened by
over-explication or description, leave the imagination free to fill
them in. Mr. Gitin understands what is poetically worth observing .
. . the minimum for giving one a lift . . . and what would be too
much."
-- Carl Rakosi ". . . assembled 'against
the wall' [the poems] spell out, and frequently with brilliant
precision, 'what has happened.' "
-- George Oppen "He focuses on detail and
precise motion of moments . . . He looks beyond what is at hand,
either within his own sensibility or reflected in time. Gitin is an
original."
-- American Library Association "Gitin is
a master of plugging us into how objects actually relate, on both
the micro-scales and the larger integrities that make up 'the
world.' "
-- Small Press Review "Spare,
lyric, and haunting -- these poems offer the starkest of
silhouettes, the obscurest of shadows. Gitin is not interested in
spelling it out. Pay attention, he seems to be saying, listen
carefully: much is revealed, in little."
-- Bookpaper "Gitin manipulates,
with sure precision, that careful crafted tongue which bites deep
into the cortex."
-- Global Tapestry Journal
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THE DOOR
the door
slopes of light
your body
a delay
in glass
KYOTO
in the company
all night
of a horsefly
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8/11/10 (Wed) 7 PM -- Reading from his new manuscript of selected poems, 1962-2010, at the Maine Grind, 192 Main Street, Ellsworth, Maine.
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3/10/09 (Tue) -- Reading with Stephen Kessler at East Village in Monterey for National Writers Union.
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10/27/07 (Sat) 7 PM -- Reading with Frank Parker for POG Poetry and Artist
Group, (Stone Avenue Gallery, 2007 N. Stone Avenue,
Tucson, AZ). Admission $5, students $3.
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5/5/07 (Sat) 7:35 PM -- Reading at the release party of PingPong
at the Henry Miller Library, Highway 1, Big Sur.
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3/3/07 (Sat) 7 PM -- Reading at Diva Dulce (Heritage
Harbor Plaza, 99 Pacific St., Suite 255C, Monterey,
California)
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1/12/07 (Fri) 7 PM -- Reading for National Writers Union
at The Works (Pacific Grove, California)
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8/3/06 (Thr) 7 PM -- Reading with Lawson Inada at the
Hartnell College Planetarium for "Poetry Under The Stars" as
part of the 10,000 Poems Project (Salinas,
California)
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7/29/06 (Sat) 1 PM -- Reading for the Monterey Poetry
Review at the Santa Cruz Public Library (Santa Cruz,
California)
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4/30/06 (Sun) 7:30 PM -- Reading with Luis Garcia and
Belle Randall at Cody's Books (Berkeley, California)
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1/24/06 (Tue) -- Reading at Bay Books (Monterey,
CA)
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10/8/05 (Sat) 1 PM -- Reading with George Mattingly at the
Seaside Library (550 Harcourt Ave., Seaside, CA)
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10/2/05 (Sun) 1 PM -- Reading at the 50th Anniversary of
the Six Gallery Reading (Ginsberg read "Howl" for first time,
joined by McClure, Snyder, Whalen, and Lamantia, with Kerouac,
Ferlinghetti, et al. in the audience, and Rexroth as MC) at
the San Francisco Public Library [more
info]
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10/1/05 (Sat) -- Reading for Monterey Poetry Review at the
Monterey Public Library (Monterey, CA)
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9/24/05 (Sat) 7:30 PM -- Reading at Point Reyes
Books (11315 Highway 1, Point Reyes Station,
CA)
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7/18/05 (Mon) 7:30 PM -- Reading at Bird &
Beckett (2788 Diamond St., San Francisco,
CA)
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6/30/05 (Thr) -- Reading for the Wilcox Poetry Series
(Albany, New York)
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6/27/05 (Mon) -- Reading at the Center for
Cultural Exchange (1 Longfellow Square, Portland,
Maine)
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6/26/05 (Sun) 3 PM -- Reading for The College
Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Ave., Boston,
Mass.)
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6/21/05 (Tue) 6 PM -- Reading for The Bowery Poetry
Club (308 Bowery, New York City)
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6/11/05 (Sat) 12 Noon -- Presenting with Maria Tabor at
the Summer Poetry Workshop for Central
Coast Writers at the Sunset Center (San Carlos Ave.
between 8th St. and 10th St., Carmel, CA)
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5/13/05 (Fri) 7 PM -- Reading with Dan Linehan for National
Writers Union at the Sunset Center (San Carlos Ave.
between 8th St. and 10th St., Carmel, CA)
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3/21/05 (Mon) 7:30 PM -- Reading with Jack Marshall at Moe's Books (2476
Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA)
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2/26/05 (Sat) 7 PM -- Book release reading at Morgan's
Coffee & Tea (498 Washington St., Monterey, CA)
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 Artwork by Gabe Gandzjuk.
 George Mattingly and David Gitin at
reading in Seaside Library.
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Morgan's. Photos by Dan
Linehan.
Bathyspheric
Review Big
Bridge The Cafι
Review Frank's
Home McClure &
Manzarek Silliman's Blog Voleur de Feu
Dan Linehan,
Publisher Linehan Press
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