Poetry. Prose. Long anticipated, SERENADE, gathers together most of Bill Berkson's poetry and extended prose from 1975 to the end of the 1980s. Of Bill Berkson's many books, only START OVER, a limited number of LUSH LIFE and HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA (which he edited) are still available from SPD. Well-known former member of both the New York and Bolinas poetry scenes, Berkson is also currently an art critic and teacher at San Francisco Art Institute. SERENADE manages to make a track of immaculate clarity through the all too familiar fogs of habit and human illusion. With generous affection and unflaggin wit Bill Berkson never misses a step - or the words that, again, say it all-- Robert Creeley. Berkson is an attentive provider of sure-fire linguistic deliverables - Kit Robinson. Includes several beautiful drawings by Joe Brainard.

Author City: San Francisco, CA USA

Born in New York, Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic, and teacher. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, he lives in San Francisco and New York.