Would You Be Made Whole?

Gregg Friedberg grew up in Columbus, Ohio but for many years has lived in Upper Sandusky, a rural county seat, and nowadays spends half of each year in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he participates in the bilingual arts-and-culture scene, gives regular readings, and is a coeditor of the literary journal La Presa published by Embajadoras Press. Professionally he’s been a partner in a computer software company, writing applications for Ohio county government, but has always written poetry, is happiest when writing sustained sequences, loosely but not conventionally narrative, treating a matrix of themes from an evolving perspective. The Best Seat Not in the House (Main Street Rag, 2010; Embajadoras Press, 2017) examines the vexed relationship between Creator and creature, whether God and man or author and protagonist. In What’s Wrong (Kelsay Books, 2022), a longer sequence, the first-person narrator is a refugee from American marketing culture. Friedberg is completing a collection of photogr