Jacqueline Berger is the author of three previous books: The Mythologies of Danger, winner of the Bluestem Poetry Prize, Things That Burn, winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Gift That Arrives Broken, which won the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac. She is a professor of English and directs the graduate program at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. A native of Los Angeles, Jacqueline lives in San Francisco with her husband.

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Other poems on the web by Jacqueline Berger:
"Ruin Porn"
"Blade"

Jacqueline Berger's Website.

Jacqueline Berger According to Wikipedia.

About The Day You Miss Your Exit:

"Whatever light is shining, was shining, in our lives, Jacqueline Berger preserves and cherishes in these brilliant new poems. She knows irony and wit as well as praise, and her voice, in its exact attention to detail, to what is lost, offers luminous prayer after prayer as she faces the dark music of mortality. Memory is the instrument and these poems sing with detail and emotional truth and save us all."
—Christopher Buckley

"AwThis strong, shining collection is erected over the ruins of loss—the passing of both Berger’s parents, and, along with them, the old analog life of the 20th Century. At turns wry, dark, funny, and hungry for meaning, Berger’s poems give new voice to grief and aging at a time when even the ways we remember are changing."
—Maria Hummel

"No one is harder/to kill than the dead, Jacqueline Berger writes, a line that echoes through all the poems in The Day You Miss Your Exit. Big or small, nothing escapes her attention: a favorite coat, I Dream of Jeannie, the New Orleans’ Museum of Death. Everything has a place in Berger’s concise and compelling narratives as she examines intersections of memory and loss, exploring the infinite ways the past shadows the present."
—Bruce Snider