favorite bill berkson poems

a list in advance of the career-spanning selected poems due out from coffee house in a coupla years...

from Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press, 2007)

• No Danger of That
  
• Never Happened
  
• Last Look
  
• English Suite
  
• Merit
  
• Heine Song
  
• Thuringian Equals
  
• After the Medusa
  
• Salad Spinner
  
• "I thought they were beautiful but they're really glamorous"
  
• Glass Hoist
  
• Compass Points
  
• Cuban Fives

from Fugue State (Zoland Books, 2001)

• A Head at the Covers
  
• Shelter
  
• Way How
  
• Melting Milk
  
• Graphics
  
• Enough Already
  
• Saint Francis Dark
  
• The Reader's Lover
  
• Binding Grievance
  
• Camera Obscura
  
• By Halves

from Serenade: Poetry and Prose 1975-1989 (Zoland Books, 2000)

• Basis
  
• From a Childhood #101
  
• Poem ("cutting brush...")
  
• Voyage from Jericho
  
• Anti-Poem
  
• Tint Guard
  
• On Ice
  
• Try Again
  
• Ocean Grove
  
• Burckhardt's Ninth
  
• First Turns
  
• Source
  
• Stopping Is Nothing
  
• You Know What Crazy Is?
  
• End-of-Century Thrush
  
• Start Over
  
• On the High Window
  
• A Fixture
  
• Chocolate Chocolate Chip
  
• At the Skin
  
• Chasing the Slip

from Blue is the Hero (Poems 1960-1975) (L Publications, 1976)

• Floors
  
• Carolinas
  
• Oscar

[still working on this book...]