"Right out of the headlines, participant in, on and of the edges of the dangerous and bejeweled world, listener of sages ubiquitous, public radio opinionated, cable tv hysterical, spinning on the deck of the luxury liner of night itself with an Excedrin habit and a penchant for small dogs and oracular insomnia, this is Nancy Bergs poetry, seeking its soulmate inside an emerald and unlike anything else being written, crackling like early electricity, heavy with art. When will this walking full-production Hollywood musical of a poet come to your town and make you a deal deep inside, tangling...