Wild Strawberries collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The California Quarterly, the Iconoclast, The New York Quarterly and The Pedestal, from 2005 to 2008, by the critically acclaimed poet Eric Greinke. The book's central theme is man's relationship to time and the natural (and unnatural) world.

Eric Greinke has a Master's degree in Social Work from Grand Valley State University. He is the author of several books of fiction, non-fiction & poetry, most recently The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From The French Of Arthur Rimbaud (American Versions, Presa Press, 2007). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barbaric Yawp, Bogg, California Quarterly, Free Verse, Home Planet News, The Hurricane Review, Ibbetson St., The Iconoclast, The New York Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, & Wilderness House Literary Review. He lives at Bostwick Lake, Michigan.