Gitin's postal address is Box 505, Monterey CA 93942; his e.mail address is dgitin@mbay.net; and his phone number (408) 646-9181.

Gitin's books include: Guitar against the Wall (Panjandrum, San Francisco, 1972); City Air (Ithaca House, Ithaca, 1974); Ideal Space Relations (Morgan Press, Milwaukee, 1976); Legwork (Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1977); This Once: New & Selected Poems 1965-1978 (Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1979); Vacuum Tapestries: Poems from Haight-Ashbury Journals, (BB Books, England, 1981); The Call (Coffee House, Minneapolis, 1984); Fire Dance (Blue Wind, Berkeley, 1989); Passing Through (Two Spirits Dancing, Pacific Grove, 1994) and two private editions, Woke Up One Morning (1996) and Journey (1997).

There is an article and bio on Gitin in the Contemporary Authors Series put out by Gale Publishing which has further information about his work.

Concerning contemporary poets, he says, "During the past 35 years I would single out John Wieners, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Larry Eigner, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Robert Duncan and more..." as the contemporary poets most important to him.  Blake, Shelley, Chaucer, Rilke, Dante, Shakespeare, Donne, Rumi, Poe, Whitman, Yeats, Pound, Jabes and more... are on his list of important poets of the past. He has not found any critic to be of importance to him.

For a sample of three short poems by Gitin, "Estate," "For John Tchicai" and "Kyoto," click here.