Poet Richard M. Berlin has been called "A twenty-first century William Carlos Williams." — Booklist

"Practice contains the poems of a sturdy, unadorned man who is not hiding behind anything, and who is not driven towards something. He is standing there observing, feeling, and interpreting the world to a broad audience of intimate listeners. He describes himself so evocatively as anxious while on vacation, but, “I can be at peace/ when I am with my patients or at home…” He might have added that his fate, as it emerges in the poems in this book, is in the orientation to life that words expose when they reveal truths that spring up inside of coherent, beautiful language." — Paul R. Fleischman, Author of Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant and other books