. . . . . "Winner of the 2002 Pearl Poetry Prize. How JFK Killed My Father introduces to us an important new voice in contemporary poetry and offers us a rare, poignant glimpse into one doctor's world through poems that are honest and unflinching, gentle and brutal at once ... Here we have a doctor who admits that to 'save a life' is to pretend, a doctor who knows it's just a postponement. Read Richard Berlin's poems; they are the salve. They are the music we hear while we wait. --Lisa Glatt."@en . "How JFK Killed My Father"@en .