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In X=, Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming urgency and detail.
New & Selected Poems
Stephen Berg is one of the most original, passionate and vital American poets of his generation. This selection - his first book to be published in Britain - includes work from The Daughters (1971), Grief (1975), With Akhmatova at the Black gates (1981) and In It (1986), as well as new poems, a selection from a work-in-progress, Shaving, and his masterly long work, Homage to the Afterlife.
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"As a single thing, this book creates a vivid and unforgettable character who speaks the poems: there is nobody more relentless, spiritually and emotionally, than Stephen Berg: no hiding, no bullshit. Here is exhilarating: the highest art, a great book." -MICHAEL RYAN"From Joyce to Morrison the great accomplishment of the twentieth century was to establish what a Writer is. Not many are left, but Berg is squarely among them." -HAYDEN CARRUTHStephen Berg is the author of many important collections of poetry and translations, including Halo, Rimbaud: Versions and Inventions, The Elegy on Hats, and 58 Poems, published by Sheep Meadow. He is the founder of the The American Poetry Review.
In it
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With Akhmatova at the Black Gates
Contains poems by Stephen Berg who is also the author of Oblivion, In It, New and Selected Poems, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, and other books of poetry.
The Elegy on Hats
Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem). In Still Unilluminated I..., poems reinvent the work of Arthur Rimbaud. These poems come out of Berg's life and are placed in twenty-first century America, not nineteenth-century Paris. His masters' influence has reminded some of Joyce's use of Homer in Ulysses. That is quite a mouthful, but it is earned. Where Joyce's Ulysses is set in Dublin, Berg is always an American, urban revolutionary. He makes poetry out of the ordinary, commonplace and material, out of which his sexual and religious visions are passionately made. Stated musically, his poems are played on the cello, accompanied by brass, with wrong note effects that one hears sometimes in Stravinsky's Rites of Spring, with a touch of hip-hop.
The Steel Cricket
A remarkable anthology of Berg's translations representing his unique method of mingling his own poetic sensibility with the poets, thus retaining the profound music of the works. The collected poems, taken from more literal English translations, explore visions from Nahuatl religious chants, Eskimo songs, and Zen traditions as well as European, Latin American, and Russian offerings including Sappho, Rimbaud, Radnoti, Mayakovsky, Tsvetayeva, Annensky, and Paz. Includes short essays detailing the history of the translations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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About Women
Poetry, fiction and essays by such writers as Sylvia Plath, Bruno Bettelheim and Joyce Carol Oates probe diverse aspects of the female experience in contemporary American society
