"Berg’s is a unique, powerful voice in American poetry. Eloquent and zany, his poems deal with the most raw and emotionally rending themes, while maintaining a startling forthrightness of vision."—C. K. Williams
"In reading Berg, you will be reading the master of the prose poem."—Jorie Graham
Stephen Berg is the founder of The American Poetry Review, which he has edited for more than thirty years, and the author of important collections of poetry and translations, including Halo, Rimbaud: Versions and Inventions, and The Elegy on Hats, published by Sheep Meadow.
February 2013