Indebted to Wind book review

Indebted to Wind has a review in North of Oxford by John Zheng

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

About LR Berger

L.R. Berger’s work has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The PEN New England Discovery Award and The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.  She was Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome, and has been granted residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, Hedgebrook, Wellspring House and The Hermitage.  Her collection of poems, The Unexpected Aviary, received the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry.

Bookstores and libraries respond to L.R.’s reading from Indebted to Wind

L.R. Berger has been busy ever since her new book Indebted to Wind came out last August. Here are some testimonials from readings she gave.

Belding Memorial Library was grateful to host L.R. Berger. She captivated the room at her reading, sharing anecdotes between poems and offering an intimate Q&A at the end. Her wisdom, graciousness, and humor made for a wonderful hour. We have been conspiring to get her back to Ashfield ever since!

—Sarah Hertel-Fernandez, Library Director, Belding Library, Ashfield MA.

L.R. Berger gave a poetry reading at our library to a rapt crowd. Her work is lovely, thought provoking, often funny and beautifully delivered. Program participants left asking for more programs like this one, which was music to my ears.

—Donna V. Dunlop, Library Director, Hopkinton Town Library, Hopkinton, NH

L.R. Berger has a thoughtful and resonant poetry reading style that thrums into the heart of the listener. Engaging and comfortable in front of the camera, her verse gave us one of the most chatty and responsive virtual audiences we’ve had in a long while. L.R. was also a delight to work with on the lead-up to the event, responsive to emails and quick to organize details with me.

—Elisabeth Jewell, Events Coordinator, Gibson’s Bookstore, Concord, NH

It was such a pleasure to have L.R. Berger return to our bookstore to release her latest book of poetry, Indebted to Wind. We had about 50 people in her appreciative gathering, and sold as many of her books. She is a NH poet widely sought after, and easy to work with.

—Katharine Nevins, MainStreet BookEnds owner, Warner, NH

L.R. Berger’s participation as Featured Poet on Episode 9 of the Rice Pudding Poetry Podcast was elegant from beginning to end. Sensitive to the strict parameters of time, and well-prepared for the recording itself, L.R.’s themed reading for this audio project was generously collaborative. Her theme, The Sacred in the Ordinary, allowed her to gather from her collections poems of great beauty and grace, and her voice is exquisite! Podcast listeners responded to her show with abundant pleasure and gratitude. https://ricepudding.podbean.com/

—Kimberly Green, Host of Rice Pudding Poetry Podcast, Rice Library, Kittery, ME

L.R. Berger has another event in May

L.R. Berger’s new book

The world dares us to love it: that poignant, sturdy brand of love that can sometimes be wrestled out of the condition of our lives. These poems are driven by an ongoing necessity to take up this dare. They are both the means by which I wrestle and the hard-won outcome: a record of how I persisted, faltered or came to arrive at something approaching this love.
—L.R. Berger

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

Available from Deerbrook Editions