Poetry. Art. Translation. REPEAT AFTER ME comprises sixteen new poems--including translations from Mallarme, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Pushkin--by Bill Berkson, accompanied by watercolor images by the painter John Zurier. "To you, / one of very few / good excuses / ever given / for life on Earth." John Zurier is a painter who has lived in Berkeley, CA, since 1974. He is current Eminent Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2010.
Having the water colors def made me appreciate the poems more. It was interesting reading poems that also acted as art criticism and referenced other poets. Hated the poem about Jeff Koons but other than that I enjoyed!