Cuneiform Press

"Berkson is an attentive provider of sure-fire linguistic deliverables."

—Kit Robinson

"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."

—Ron Padgett

In this stunning collection of lectures spanning twenty-five years, Berkson addresses subjects as various as Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Philip Guston, Dante, and the sublime.

114 pp., 23 x 15.5 cm. (2007). Set in Scala, this edition is limited to 500 perfectbound copies and 26 hardcover copies lettered and signed by the author.

Bill Berkson has worked as a poet, critic, editor and publisher, teacher, and curator for over half a century. His recent books of poems include Fugue State, Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz), Hymns of St. Bridget (with Frank O’Hara), and Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently. Other recent publications include a selection of criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings, and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer, What’s Your Idea of a Good Time: Letters & Interviews 1977-1985. He lives in New York and San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1984. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and was Paul Mellon Fellow for 2006 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.