(Excerpt)
even before trees rocks I was nothing
when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing
all the bad things I do will go up in smoke
and so will I
if there's nowhere to rest at the end
how can I get lost on the way?
this ink painting of wind blowing through pines
who hears it?
Stephen Berg is the founder and co-editor of The American Poetry Review and was the editor (with Robert Mezey) of the highly acclaimed Naked Poetry Anthologies. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry and translations and has been awarded the Frank O'Hara Memorial Prize, a Columbia University Translation Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Pew, Rockefeller, and Dietrich Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Princeton and Haverford and is currently Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
