Poetry. "'I speak volumes,' Bill Berkson writes in one of his poems, 'and I crumble as I succeed/ empire-elect of a most honorable science . . .' The science is poetry, a science that creates happiness in spite of everything. Berkson does it by means of a language and a form that are never what one expects but more exciting and to the point"-Kenneth Koch. Berkson is also the author of many other SPD titles, including HYMNS OF ST. BRIDGET AND OTHER WRITINGS (with Frank O'Hara), SERENADE, and YOUNG MANHATTAN (with Ann Waldman). "It's the Berkson Difference Engine, hitting on the level of the syllable, illuminating arrays, pure products of the daily utterance, mining one of the deepest veins of living vocabulary ever. What a pleasure to be his lifelong follower"-Clark Coolidge.

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.

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