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, zookeepers' caps; and art historians, lead apronsto protect them from impending radiant fact.
"His work is work that gets deeper and deeper the more you read it. Do yourself a favor and take the time to listen, and then read, and reread, Berkson."
Bird & Beckett Bookstore
"[Expect Delays] is an instructive mantra for the present time in which thoughtful patience has been supplanted by mediated distraction. The collection works in prose-poetic meditations and elegant aphorisms, weaving in contemporary culture, rounding out its absurdities and complexities with wry qualifications, historical particulars and unexpected reversals."
Hyperallergic
"There are few poets writing today with the range and talent of Bill Berkson."
