Music in Bruce Berger's poetry is more than subject matter, more than cadence; it is a metaphor for the examined life. In these poems, a man's transformations are measured by the concerts he has witnessed; the depth of a woman's life is revealed by an unfinished painting her son attempts to complete; a composer is gauged by his silences. Berger springs secrets from our uninspected common places. With a compression rare in contemporary poetry, and a leavening wit, he draws the reader toward a subject's interior through its beguiling surface.

Author: Bruce Berger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: 06/27/2014
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781938633430

About the Author
Bruce Berger is a pianist who has played professionally in the U.S. and Spain and has given benefit concerts in Mexico. He has also given poetry readings in New Delhi and Mumbai and was sent to represent the U.S. at the Mussoorie International Writers' Festival in Northern India. He is the author of Almost an Island, The Telling Distance, and There Was a River. He lives in Aspen, Colorado.