re-animator

My debut poetry collection, Re-Animator, is now available through Ingram!

You can also currently find it at the below online retailers:

Amazon

B&N

Bookshop.org

Strand

Walmart.com

re-animator playlist

Here is a Spotify playlist of music referenced in my poetry collection, Re-Animator.

Re-Animator is available to order from Indolent Books. Cover photograph by Michael Galinsky.

re-animator

Copies are in of my debut poetry book, Re-Animator!  

Order here at Indolent Books.

re-animator

My first collection of poems, Re-Animator, forthcoming from Indolent Books in 2026, is now available to preorder!

See here for a link from Indolent Books to purchase.

"In this incisive, deliciously specific collection, Jeffery Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught. Whether he’s evoking Jason from Friday the 13th or invoking the lyrics of “We Are the World,” he traces the masks and acts that disguise and reveal, while unraveling and reweaving the veils of identity, gender, and place. “I rewrite, I myth-make / the discos, cracked records, / Astaire, and bodies that didn’t make it / this long,” Berg writes. “I rework them into air, / into glass, shimmering, pricked / into a slivery frock / above pits of this earth.” Re-Animator takes us back and leads us forward, as we revisit our past and so reclaim our present, with generosity and wisdom."

—David Groff

dreamland shores & mall, 1990

Check out two of my poems in the latest issue of Map Literary.

"Dreamland Shores" which is after the 1977 film Empire of the Ants.

And "Mall, 1990" which is based off of photographs by Michael Galinsky.

mall, 1990

Here are some incredible photos by Michael Galinsky. I remember the fashion and how smoky malls used to be. Galinsky is trying to publish a book of these photos. Support him here. More photos here.