And Mash: Warm Rejections by Jerome Berglund

“And Mash by Jerome Berglund crackles with the kind of life you find in a city recently decontextualized by a thunderstorm. The poems interrogate not the division between the natural and manmade but the falseness of that division. Our conception of the natural is itself a construction, while human artifice is natural. These tensions form a network of relations which the poet draws from and deconstructs, leading not so much to a resolution, but acceptance.”

— Pippa Phillips

About the Author:

Jerome Berglund, a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the Midwest where he has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. He was recently nominated for the Touchstone and Pushcart prize. Jerome is also an established, award-winning fine art photographer whose black and white pictures have been exhibited in New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica galleries.