David Bergman

David Bergman is the author of three books of poetry, Cracking the Code (Ohio State University Press, 1985), which won the George Elliston Poetry Prize, Heroic Measures (Ohio State University Press, 1998) and The Fortunate Light (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2013). He is the author of the studies The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Post-War American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Poetry (University of Gaiety...See more

David Bergman is the author of three books of poetry, Cracking the Code (Ohio State University Press, 1985), which won the George Elliston Poetry Prize, Heroic Measures (Ohio State University Press, 1998) and The Fortunate Light (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2013). He is the author of the studies The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Post-War American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Poetry (University of Gaiety Transfigured, 1991). His poetry won the 2022 Passager Poetry Contest and has appeared in such journals as The American Scholar , The Missouri Review , The Kenyon Review , The Paris Review , The New Republic , and The Yale Review . See less