Bill Berkson

 

Bill Berkson            for Jim Gustafson       Last Words   "That's the way it goes."   "More light, please."   "Whose side are you on anyway?"   "Goodnight, sweet Prince."   "Shut the door on your way out."   "You want I should call you a cab?"           Gimme A Swig   There must have been a saturation of enchantment at some point before the crafty badgers dismantled their catch, the actual, for meathead determinism, pestilence futures, sub- dular glitches, and the like. You had plenty to read, a river skidding gently through it,  every day, the first pineapple.

Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic and professor of art history at the San Francisco Art Institute. Of his eleven books and pamphlets of poetry, the most recent are Lush Life (Z Press) and Start Over(Tombouctou). He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and a regular contributor to Modern Painters, American Craft and other magazines. He lives in San Francisco, California.