. . . . "The mythologies of danger"@en . . . "Winner of the 1997 Bluestem Poetry Award. Berger explores the vagaries of desire, the entanglements of the self and the dangerous process of knowing and being known. I am trying to isolate the present / as dancers locate a particular muscle / and work it, she writes. Her poems work the present with passion and a lively curiosity. This is an impressive debut. --Chana Bloch. These are poems of immediate human energy and willful edge, whose voice stays with us even after the book is closed. --Alberto Alvaro Rios."@en . . . . . . "The Mythologies of Danger"@en . .