FUGUE STATE
Bill Berkson, . . Zoland, $13 (65pp) ISBN 978-1-58195-104-2
With careers long supported through independent publishing, these mid- and later-career male poets weigh in with new or republished collections. Unless otherwise specified, the titles are available from Small Press Distribution.
Berkson's speaker's relationship to objects is specific where one expects generality, tactile where one expects only sight, active when it should be passive: "I removed the rains and motored/ and flipped through the covers of a board/ ...in the mirror-narrow confines of an/ eyesore fog you can fly/ over still and put/ your finger on a dune." Likewise, Berkson (
Reviewed on: 07/23/2001
Genre: Nonfiction