Title: Kit Fox Blues
Description: The first full length collection of poetry by Jack Crimmins, a poet who works as a licensed psychotherapist in northern California.  Crimmins' poems have been published in poetry chapbboks such as "Blind Corners", "The Far Hill", "Summer War Haiku", "Blue Cat Buddha", "Poems and Prayers in a Time of War", and "Desert Edge".  Crimmins has also published in small press magazines and he is the featured poet in many of Lynn V. Andrews' books on shamanism.  A former wilderness guide, the work in "Kit Fox Blues" includes the longer poem "Death Valley", and poems in which the wilderness is central.  Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima, who published this book, writes in her introduction to "Kit Fox Blues", "Jack Crimmins weaves together the music of the city streets and the urgent fragile sounds of wilderness.  He takes us home to his life in the California desert, or the heart of its northern woods . . . He is himself, as he writes of Philip Lamantia, a "blue singer of road".