Bill Berkson : Sudden Address

Bill Berkson : Sudden AddressIn this stunning collection of lectures spanning twenty five years, poet and critic Bill Berkson addresses subjects as various as Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Philip Guston, Dante, and the Sublime. 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." Sudden Address was typeset in Martin

—Ron Padgett

” It’s the poetry of everyday existence in all its oddity and “nothingbutness

Gervais Jassaud

a portfolio of poems with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press

angular poems make a point of pulling the rug out from under

She was famous for the strange phenomena her brownie camera permitted—swirls of light and water spouts rising up out of ponds next to Robert Duncan

The poems in A Song at Twilight are songs of experience as well as innocence

First edition of 500 copies

Montrouge where Dine had a studio and where many of the songs occur

ISBN: 978-1-950055-07-4

I want to say that this is also a study of clouds

but an awareness of a shift that is a discontinuity