…Stephen Berg’s Shaving is the first book of prose poems I have read that has made me re-examine the function and power of that branch of our poetry. It is a book of strenuous and often dangerous self-witness; an astounding overview of American urban life at the apex and turning point of a major civilization…most importantly, it is brilliantly written…In reading Berg you will be reading the master of the prose poem. (Jorie Graham)