Here: Poems

by Stephen Berg

Overview

All’s Write with the World

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937679354
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Stephen Berg is the founder of The American Poetry Review and the author of important collections of poetry and translations, including Halo, Rimbaud: Versions and Inventions, The Elegy on Hats, and 58 Poems, published by Sheep Meadow.

What People are Saying About This

Hayden Carruth

“From Joyce to Morrison the great accomplishment of the twentieth century was to establish what a Writer is. Not many are left, but Berg is squarely among them.”

Michael Ryan

“As a single thing, this book creates a vivid and unforgettable character who speaks the poems: there is nobody more relentless, spiritually and emotionally, than Stephen Berg: no hiding, no bullshit. Here is exhilarating: the highest art, a great book.”

Jorie Graham

“In reading Berg you will be reading the master of the prose poem.”

Editorial Reviews

In reading Berg you will be reading the master of the prose poem.

Jorie Graham

As a single thing, this book creates a vivid and unforgettable character who speaks the poems: there is nobody more relentless, spiritually and emotionally, than Stephen Berg: no hiding, no bullshit. Here is exhilarating: the highest art, a great book.

Michael Ryan

From Joyce to Morrison the great accomplishment of the twentieth century was to establish what a Writer is. Not many are left, but Berg is squarely among them.

Hayden Carruth