Cultural Writing. Poetry. Art. Essays. Ron Padgett writes: "Bill Berkson's writing is witty, musical, daily, and deep, underpinned by a bracing integrity and shot through with gorgeous abstraction and other brilliant hookups between eye, ear, mind, and heart." In this stunning collection of lectures spanning twenty-five years, Berkson addresses subjects as various as Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Philip Guston, Dante, and the sublime.

Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA USA



About the author: Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic and professor of art history at the San Francisco Art Institute. Of his eleven books and pamphlets of poetry, the most recent are Lush Life (Z Press) and Start Over (Tombouctou). He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and a regular contributor to Modern Painters, American Craft and other magazines. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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