Expect Delays

Praise for Bill

"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."—Publishers Weekly

Wide-ranging and experimental, Expect Delays confronts past and present with rare equilibrium, eyeballing mortality while appreciating the richness and surprise, as well as the inevitable griefs, inherent in the time allowed.

Dress Trope

Critics should wearwhite jackets likelab technicians;curators, zookeepers' caps;and art historians,lead apronsto protect them fromimpendingradiant fact.

Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute.