Shaving

by Stephen Berg

Book Overview

This isn't a book to read aloud in polite company. But what a refreshment that is, given the overpowering strain of gentility and restraint in American poetry. Useful as decorum may be as a poetic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884800173
• ISBN13: 9781884800177
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Poetic prose; forget line breaks; rhythm, friend!

It sounds trite, but pioneer is the only word that comes to mind. Steve is out there practicing what I believe to be a long ignored art. In his writng, Steve finds the perfect rhythm that eliminates the need for line breaks, his pauses are reminiscent of Kerouac's dashes where he stopped blowing to inhale for another verse of "bop prose".Berg blowing beyond all limits and breaking all the norms! Beautiful, or at least thats the opinion of this Zen Berg hopeful-