Anselm Berrigan, Author . Edge $14 (101p) ISBN 978-1-890311-11-7
"We stayed in the worst/ hotel in Paris together/ at one of the worst times/ in my life, that has to be/ true love." The son of the late Ted Berrigan (whose The Sonnets
was recently republished) and of Alice Notley (Disobience
etc.),...
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Anselm Berrigan, Author . City Lights $13.95 (106p) ISBN 978-0-87286-502-0
Berrigan's fourth collection, and the second volume in City Lights' new Spotlight Series, is composed of three poems or sequences. The first and longest, “Have a Good One,” is an extended series of seemingly flippant personal...
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Anselm Berrigan, Author Edge Books $14 (64p) ISBN 978-1-890311-05-6
A brooding intellect injected into the effusive lyricism of the New York School makes Berrigan's famous parentage--he is the son of poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley--an inheritance he self-awarely transforms. Berrigan is not so much undoing...
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Anselm Berrigan, Author Edge Books $15 (78p) ISBN 978-1-890311-20-9
The salient fact to know on cracking Berrigan's third full-length collection is that he is artistic director of the Poetry Project of St. Mark's Church in New York City, the legendary center where his father, Ted Berrigan, and mother, Alice Notley,...
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Anselm Berrigan. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-933517-54-4
Stirring cosmic observations and succinct "micro-meanings" in the same pot, Berrigan creates a single poem that reads like the manifesto of a poet who would never admit he's writing one. "I don't think it works," he says, "to /plead for a voice out...
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Anselm Berrigan. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $18 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-940696-29-4
Berrigan (Primitive State) dispenses with linearity in a perception-shuffling book that, on the fly, instructs its audience on how to read it. Composed entirely of margin-hugging, rectangular poems that can be read starting at any point and loop...
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Anselm Berrigan. Wave, $18 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-940696-79-9
In his eighth collection, Berrigan (Notes from Irrelevance) plumbs the depths of his own mind—and occasionally the minds of others—as he flits through impressions, images, and varied linguistic play. New York City is at the heart of the collection,...
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Anselm Berrigan.. Black Square, $20 (104p) ISBN 978-1-73632-480-6
Berrigan's dynamic and unusual latest (after Something for Everybody) offers a smattering of wit and playful language in poems devoid of punctuation that riff on observations and ideas, musically building one detail into the next. Here, images are...
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