Fugue State

by Berkson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781581951042
• ISBN10: 1581951043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Fugue State represents the first all-new work by Poet Bill Berkson -- a founding member of the New York school of poets and artists -- in over a decade. As always, these poems risk seismic upheavals along the fault line of language's slippery edge. A bold follow up to last year's Serenade, a collaboration with the late artist Joe Brainerd, by the author of Lush Life, and Saturday Night.

Author Biography

Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939 and attended Brown and Columbia universities and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Saturday Night: Poems 1960-61, Shining Leaves, Enigma Variations Blue Is the Hero, Lush Life, and Serenade A corresponding editor for Art in America, he is also a contributor to Modern Painters and other art magazines. He lives in San Francisco and is professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute

Table of Contents

On the Waldo Grade
A Head at the Covers	3	(2)
Shelter	5	(1)
In a Hand Not My Own	6	(1)
Mandate: Archie to Jughead	7	(1)
The Obvious Tradition	8	(1)
Way How	9	(1)
Melting Milk	10	(2)
Graphics	12	(1)
Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz	13	(1)
Fugue State	14	(3)
An Example, Worthwhile	17	(1)
A Finial	18	(3)
Clerical Workers
Dear Consumer, the Estimate is High	21	(1)
Enough Already	22	(1)
Clerical Workers	23	(1)
An Example, Volunteer Basis	24	(1)
Expanded X	25	(1)
Merzbau	26	(1)
Brunch	27	(1)
Tarps	28	(1)
Saint Sir Francis Dark	29	(1)
The Reader's Lover	30	(1)
Late Capital	31	(1)
All My Songs Come Unannounced	32	(1)
In Gray Sweats	33	(2)
Binding Grievance	35	(4)
A Copy of the Catalogue
For Jim Gustafson	39	(1)
``Vibrato came from Lee Wiley. . .''	40	(1)
Signature Song	41	(1)
A Copy of the Catalogue	42	(2)
Volition	44	(1)
So I Fled	45	(1)
``787B Castro Street. . .''	46	(2)
Purgatory	48	(1)
Lounge Music	49	(1)
A Hyrax on Her Shoulder	50	(1)
History at Night	51	(1)
Another Coffee, After Saint Augustine	52	(1)
After Heinrich Heine	53	(1)
Stains of Stalin	54	(1)
Camera Obscura	55	(1)
The Recital	56	(1)
La Poesie Blanche	57	(1)
Memoir Bay	58	(2)
By Halves	60	(1)
Notes to the Poems	61