Expect Delays

Praise for Bill Berkson: "A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."**—*Publishers Weekly*** "That was Bill through and through, still curious and receptive after a lifetime of glamorous soldiering through the fields of art and poetry.” **—*City Lights,* "Homage to Bill Berkson"** 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 wear white jackets like lab technicians; curators, zoo keepers' caps; and art historians, lead aprons to protect them from impending radiant fact.* **Bill Berkson** is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute.