ORACLES FOR NIGHT-BLOOMING ECCENTRICS
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Right out of the headlines, participant in, on and of the edges of the dangerous and bejeweled world, listener of sages ubiquitous, public radio opinionated, cable tv hysterical, spinning on the deck of the luxury liner of night itself with an Excedrin habit and a penchant for small dogs and oracular insomnia, this is Nancy Bergs poetry, seeking its soulmate inside an emerald and unlike anything else being written, crackling like early electricity, heavy with art. When will this walking full-production Hollywood musical of a poet come to your town and make you a deal deep inside, tangling all arteries with her abundant literary grace and charm? You can only hope and dream. But she is here now in this booty-kicking little number. So, pick it up, try it on. It looks great on you.- Rustin Larson, author of Crazy Star and IslandsIf Kafka is accurate in his assertion that a book should serve as an ax for the frozen sea within us, and I believe he is, then Nancy Bergs poems accomplish this exact task by a gentler, and nurturing alchemy. Oracles for Night-Blooming Eccentrics holds us to its breast, rocking us, whispering its lullabies of disappoint, hope, and creation, urging us to warm. I came to it chilled by the world and was thawed by the heat of its plangent and triumphant honesty. Such is the power of Bergs truly fine poems.-Mark Spragg, author of An Unfinished Life, The Fruit of Stone, and Where Rivers Change DirectionYou dont have to be eccentric-night-blooming or otherwise-to savor Nancy Bergs enchanting vision. It helps, though, to want to see as eccentrics see, with unfiltered eyes and deconditioned minds and hearts as open as canyons to sublime, mysterious delights dressed up as ordinary. This is poetry as revelation.- Phil Goldberg, author of This is Next Year, Roadsigns and The Intuitive EdgeNot easy, one would imagine, to write a volume on the intersection between longing, being in the moment, metaphysics, and love as a uni
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