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Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting at once figural and abstract, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson’s poetry in all its deftness and variety. His poems, full of nuance, intensity, and exuberant wit, spread meaning across the page like quicksilver, creating a body of work suffused with light.
Price: $22.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
01 April 2009
Trim Size: 10.10 X 7.10 in
ISBN: 9781566892292
Format: Paperback
“Wonderful. . . . Fifty years of slow-dawning epiphany.” —The San Francisco Bay Guardian
“This is a generous selection of work by an important poet of the New York School.” —Paul Hoover
“I’d like to thank Bill Berkson for: epitomizing objectivity & subjectivity; amusedly living in the cerulean blue, alizarin crimson mixed with titanium white, & burnt sienna world we’ve got; &; writing for us.” —Bernadette Mayer
“Portrait and Dream is a rich collection, spanning fifty years of work. The only way to do it justice is to read and re-read it. It’s a fine book.” —Galatea Resurrects
“What remains engaging in all of Berkson’s writing is how each poem and how every essay continues to be so distinctively and affectionately rendered.” —Jacket2
“This is a generous selection of work by an important poet of the New York School.” —Paul Hoover
“I’d like to thank Bill Berkson for: epitomizing objectivity & subjectivity; amusedly living in the cerulean blue, alizarin crimson mixed with titanium white, & burnt sienna world we’ve got; &; writing for us.” —Bernadette Mayer
“Portrait and Dream is a rich collection, spanning fifty years of work. The only way to do it justice is to read and re-read it. It’s a fine book.” —Galatea Resurrects
“What remains engaging in all of Berkson’s writing is how each poem and how every essay continues to be so distinctively and affectionately rendered.” —Jacket2
Bill Berkson was a poet, critic, teacher, and curator. He collaborated with many artists and writers, including Alex Katz, Philip Guston, and Frank O’Hara, and his criticism appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, and elsewhere. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, he was born in New York in 1939. He died in June 2016.