Mary Burger
Mary Burger is a writer, editor, and publisher.
Her books include Sonny (Leon Works, 2005), The
Boy Who Could Fly (Second Story Books, 2002), Thin
Straw That I Suck Life Through (Melodeon, 2000), Eating
Belief (pamphlet, Belladonna Books, 2000), Nature's
Maw Gives and Gives (Duration Press, 1999), and Bleeding
Optimist (Xurban, 1995). Her work is included in
An Anthology of New (American)
Poets (Talisman, 1998)
and Technolgies of Measure:
A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers (Small Press Traffic/Yerba Buena
Center, 2002), and numerous small-press publications,
including Aufgabe, Bombay
Gin, Chain, Explosive,
Five Fingers Review, Kenning, nocturnes, Shark, syllogism,
Tinfish, Van Gogh's
Ear, and others.
She is co-editor of the anthology Biting
the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, and of Narrativity,
an online forum for theoretical writing on narrative.
She edits
Second
Story Books, featuring cross-genre
works of innovative narrative.
From 1994-1999, she was co-editor of Proliferation,
a journal of innovative writing. She lives in Oakland,
CA.
Most publications mentioned here are available through
Small
Press Distribution.
Writing available for download (PDF files):
Talking
About the Universe as if It Existed
Some
New Opinions on Matter
The
Boy Who Could Fly
All
New Yorker Stories
Interview
with Jacques Debrot
Poems:
Esp. in being an entrance, a passageway, a constriction, or a narrowed part
Other writing available online:
VeRT
http://www.litvert.com/cvrsix.html
http://www.litvert.com/issue9.html
canwehaveourballback?
http://canwehaveourballback.com/contributors3.htm
your personality is an ad for your disposition
http://wings.buffalo.edu/cas//english/pubs/spc/disposition/francis.html
Tinfish
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/tinfish/
The Poetry Project web site
http://www.poetryproject.com/poets&poems/burger.html
Reviews available online:
Small Press Traffic newsletter (review of Thin
Straw That I Suck Life Through)
http://www.sptraffic.org/html/book_reviews/burger.html
DC Poetry (review of reading in Washington DC,
November 1999)
http://www.dcpoetry.com/revmbcv.htm
San Francisco Bay Guardian (review of Biting
the Error)
http://www.sfbg.com/39/34/lit_experimental.html