Praise for BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY:

Erica Bernheim’s poems mount a spectacular display of verve, ingenuity, imaginative and formal acrobatics, and muscular intelligence.  The spectacle, however, is only the means of these poems: Bernheim’s bravado is accompnaied by an undertow of sorrow and self-doubt, and a relentless need to mull over the troubles the poems would most like to forget.  It makes for a moving and singular poetic experience, one undertaken with “the heartbreaking precision of a broken record/player stuck on the highest notes.”

-Mark Levine

Check out H_NGM_N #5 for two poems from the chapbook.

Erica Bernheim was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy. She holds a B.A. from Miami University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Canary, Bridge, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, Court Green and Volt, among others. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches writing and literature and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

36 p. $6 ppd.