Poetry. "MUTED LINES FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S MEMORY is a heartfelt and gutsy investigation into the human brain's infinite possibilities, possibilities that remain potential in most of us, but geyser forward from Berg's consciousness in every poem. Nowhere in this book are we safe from clownfish in straitjackets, from wizards playing piccolos, from children with 'fleshy little prods.' Berg's world is rife with the nightmares and euphorias of his own relentless imagination, one that not merely burns, but is fire itself, sweeping the cortex, the hippocampus, the frontal lobe, re-forging the cerebral universe in the most pleasurable manner imaginable. The only thing wrong with this book is the title—there is nothing muted about any of these lines. They scream at maximum volume. They break glass. How could they not when every syllable is so utterly alive?"—Larissa Szporluk.

Author City: MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA

Seth Michael Berg earned his MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University in 2003 and since has been bouncing around the country teaching, tending bar, sculpting, writing, and occasionally snowshoeing. His poems and fiction can be found in Connecticut Review, Lake Effect, Word Riot, JMWW, 13th Warrior Review, Chiron Review, BlazeVOX, Pike Magazine, Disappearing City Literary Review, and DARK SKY MAGAZINE, among others. Berg lives in Minneapolis with his photographer wife, Ashley, their supernatural son, Oak, and their twelve-year-old English Bulldog, Bob. When not working, Berg can most likely be found indulging his addiction to hot sauce or slowing down somewhere in a forest.

Reviews and Other Links
H.V. Cramond @ NewPages
Mel Bosworth @ Outsider Writers Collective