Expect Delays

Berkson, Bill

ISBN 10: 1566893739 / ISBN 13: 9781566893732

Published by Coffee House Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Expect Delays
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566893739
• ISBN 13: 9781566893732
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Praise for Bill Berkson:

"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."—Publishers Weekly

"That was Bill through and through, still curious and receptive after a lifetime of glamorous soldiering through the fields of art and poetry.” —City Lights, "Homage to Bill Berkson"

Wide-ranging and experimental, Expect Delays confronts past and present with rare equilibrium, eyeballing mortality while appreciating the richness and surprise, as well as the inevitable griefs, inherent in the time allowed.

Dress Trope

Critics should wear
white jackets like
lab technicians;
curators, zoo
keepers' caps;
and art historians,
lead aprons
to protect them from
impending
radiant fact.

Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute.

About the Author

Bill Berkson is a poet, critic and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute whose previous collection Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems won the Balcones Prize for Best Poetry Book of 2010. He was born in New York in 1939, and now divides his time between San Francisco and Manhattan.