Kinship Patterns is a full length collection of poetry by Terrance Oberst. It is a series of biographical sketches or "tribute" poems divided into 4 sections: "Family," "Friends," "Elegies" for those who have passed on and "A Final Poem For A Friend," a long recollection of an individual met while hitchhiking up the coast of California. It is a book of poetic memoirs, people the poet has lived with, laughed with, cried over and loved.

Love of humanity, the environment, from a man who has suffered great indignities, yet, has risen from the ashes and turned his life and love of poetry into some of the finest work I've published. This book should be read closely by anyone who can relate to those who has been to hell and come back. A truly transcendent spirit pervades this book and Oberst has done himself, his family and friends, and all of us who care about the world a great favor with these poems. Leonard J. Cirino. The author of Terrible Wilderness of Self