L.R. has some readings coming up this fall.
One at the New England Poetry Club
One at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord NH
L.R.’s new book is Indebted to Wind which came out last year and has been reviewed in North of Oxford.
Find the book on deerbrookeditions.com
Endorsements from the back cover
The wind in these eloquent, elegant, tensile poems is present as spirit, of course; as spirit it can manifest as the longing or fate of the body (it expires), as intellectual momentum (it inspires), as power for social justice (it aspires). In all these modes, L.R. Berger both controls the energy as form, and honors the charge of the moment through perception by brilliant perception, breath by mortal breath.
—Stephen Tapscott
In this beautiful new book, words are unusually alive and active in the poet’s capable hands. A whispered finale meaning finally, a riff on up, and an exploration of the letter P : these are among the linguistic players that address both personal loss and political realities, which L. R. Berger explores with searing honesty, emotional depth, and lyric grace. No precious word is wasted here; you will read carefully and gratefully, and want to read again.
—Martha Collins