978-1-56689-229-2
$22.00
352 pages
7 x 10
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Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems
Poems by Bill Berkson

Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting and featuring a cover image from Ed Ruscha, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson’s poetry in all its deftness and variety. Full of nuance, intensity, and exuberant wit, his poems engage a mix of topics and styles to create a body of work suffused with light.

As Andrei Codrescu says, “There was always something of a mythical aura about Berkson, the collaborator of Frank O’Hara and one of the chiefs of the New York School whose friends included painters as well as poets. . . . Berkson’s own poetry is subtle and demonstratively abstract in the manner of, let’s say, de Kooning: it has an imagistic hardness and lushness that sweeps aside whatever you might have been thinking before.”
 


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