Poetry. "I feel compelled to tell what happened. Men make such fools of us their perfidy assumes Debordean proportions, and Mary Burger's been there, done that with a vengeance. The whole world's looking for a scandal, and any sordid tale will do. This story of 'suspense but no consequence' counterposes a comic love tragedy with the spectacular news of our day : the OJ/Nicole story, the Oklahoma City bombing. As a stylist, Mary Burger's brilliant and hardbitten, like the broken nails of my croupier. She's the Dorothy Parker of poetry."—Kevin Killian

Cover photograph was taken by Ted Church and does not depict the author.

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Mary Burger is a writer, visual artist, and environmental designer, interested in cross-genre writing that merges aspects of poetry, essay, and fiction. Her books include THEN GO ON (Litmus Press, 2012), a collection of lyric prose pieces, SONNY (Leon Works, 2005), a novella on the Trinity bomb test, and A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth Books, 2008), writings about geography and social space. At various times she has been the editor of the literary journal PROLIFERATION, the online forum Narrativity and accompanying anthology BITING THE ERROR, and the experimental narrative press Second Story Books. She lives in Oakland, California, and practices landscape design under the name Seedbank.

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