A Living is Not a Life: A Working Title

Alan Bereckas collection of work poetry moves toward an ethical even existential conclusion - honest but not brow-beating or self-righteousness. The poems unmask the false values of our work-world. Bereckas voice is not that of a lazy jerk-off kid but a man now in his sixties who has played the game with ironic rebellious effort in the spirit of Camus rebel hero perhaps even approaching the societal-resistance of Melvilles Bartleby. But Berecka writes with damn-fine humor and his work is always graced with his self-effacing style and redeemed by his soul-affirming humanity. - Ken Hada author of Contour Feathers