Lunch Poems: Richard Berengarten

Published: June 11, 2012, 9 p.m.

b'Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: \\u201cThe Manager\\u201d and \\u201cThe Blue Butterfly,\\u201d an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, \\u201cThe Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,\\u201d has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]'