The last major collection from one of the most significant poets of the SF Renaissance. On Time is Joanne Kyger's first full-length collection of poetry in nearly a decade. Beginning in 2005, in the throes of the endless wars of the Bush administration, and proceeding chronologically to 2014, On Time may be seen as the day book of a master poet, moving between the personal and the political, the natural and the spiritual in a restless quest for sanity. Reflecting her practice of Zen Buddhism, and her long engagement with environmentalism, On Time is a profound examination of contemporary culture from a perspective of wisdom and maturity, permeated with righteous indignation and fierce criticism. Praise for On Time : " On Time offers exquisite panoramic views of eternity. It reads like an early morning drive up the coast with sunlight showing through the branches. Joanne's words gain a perfect stillness hanging in the air. They sound in our mind then dissolve to a hairline edge. Glide with the turn. Get blown away. There is no greater voice in American poetry."— Cedar Sigo "Oh reader, you can just relax and spend hour upon hour inside Joanne Kyger’s On Time, Poems 2005-2014 , for oodles of pleasure and line-fun! Kyger beautifully observes her life and times. She’s realistic, yet graceful and good-willed, annotating herself, her friends and acquaintances, while definitely saying no to Sartre’s dictum, 'hell is other people.' What a graceful, complicated and wonderful book!"— Ed Sanders "Like the double meaning of the title, Kyger’s poems speak to the phenomenological—both to the observations of the state of being and to one's own placement in the world. Her poems ‘ step / about entering into an agreement / with the page of the moment'. Working elegantly, tone by tone, her poems are by turns political, pointed, intimate, humorous, ordinary, and profound. Here you will find instructive or incriminating dreams, world affairs, human frailties, friends that come and go, wisdom and whimsy. Visually sculpted, rich in mood movement, provocative and pleasurable, these are poems like the moon: illuminating, in transit, stately, and enduring.”— Hoa Nguyen Named a 'Best Book of 2016' by Granta "Kyger's project is a great deal more ambitious than mere writing of a personal journal. She's creating a contemporary history, fusing private and public, personal and national in ways that add up to a formidable alternative to more traditional models of historical narration. As the poet rages about the country's political direction and environmental woes, she envelops her commentary with a peculiar mix of Zen teachings and noir-tinged humor … Kyger's aesthetics have been strongly influenced by her affiliation with poets of the Beat generation. How does the Beat tradition play out in the new century? Not through nostalgia or stylistic memorabilia, but an adherence to ethics of resistance, set in motion by Kyger and the poets whose circle she was part of. Indeed, in a poem with a mouthful of a title, 'I'm Very Busy Now So I Can't Answer All Those Questions About Beat Women Poets,' Kyger keeps up the searing legacy.”— Jake Marmer, Chicago Tribune "Nearly a decade in the making, Kyger’s much-anticipated new collection bursts with spontaneity, wit, and a delightful swiftness … Though there are twinges of sorrow, they always appear with an irrepressible, almost self-deprecating humor … Kyger never lacks for source material—‘‘Everything’ is poetry, animated, kicking its heels”—and in celebrating her own 'Mega-Maturity' she states that 'understanding the grief of passing with clarity gives every moment a monumental heart.'"— Publishers Weekly "As I consider our current moment, its global stipulations, and history’s legacies, I return to [Joanne Kyger’s] poems as they engage local environments next to their larger shapes and conditions. Attentive to breath and animated by perceptions, her poems turn on the signatures of voice and attend to time, place, being-ness, politics, the daily, myth, mystery, histories, and the natural world. Visually and aurally shapely, her lines mix tone and mood as they muse, inform, and record … Always rich and provocative, On Time includes my favorite poem title ever: ‘A Great Vampire Squid Is Wrapped Around The Face Of Humanity’ (referencing journalist Taibbi’s observation of Goldman Sachs). Other lines may pointedly question global violence ‘Can you believe the amount of global war / we are more / than halfway into?’ or consider the nature of time ‘But when has the present ever been singular?’ Whole poems may observe and offer a synthesis of the personal and the political, the local and the at-large.”— Granta "The poems arrive presented in chronological order, forming a continuous tracking of Kyger’s daily business, the regular affairs of her life transcribed into a transformational poetics. Her poems take advantage of what is commonplace, what’s often seen as minor, the simpler seeming details o