<div><p>Praise for Bill Berkson:</P><p>"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></P><p>Wide-ranging and experimental, <i>Expect Delays</i> 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.</P><p><b>Dress Trope</b></P><p><i>Critics should wear<br>white jackets like<br>lab technicians;<br>curators, zoo<br>keepers' caps;<br>and art historians,<br>lead aprons<br>to protect them from<br>impending<br>radiant fact.</i></P><p><b>Bill Berkson</b> is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute.<br></div>