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Anselm is one of the foremost poets of his generation, very well-loved in his native NYC, where he was the artistic director of St. Marks Poetry Project for several years. He comes from a well-known poetic lineage (father Ted Berrigan, mother Alice Notley), associated with a well-known literary group (the New York School). Anselm's poems are often complex but always accessible, even as he pushes further and further into experimental terrain. He's a younger writer who teaches at a number of colleges, and has a voice and perspective that appeals to college-age students. His work will, of course, be of interest to an older fan base, those who like his parents', Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Anselm's book is unique in its format; one long poem is made of numerous short poems all with the same title, and another long poem is made of several differently-titled short poems. The long poem is linked together by a single shorter poem. It is ambitious without being forbidding. Free Cell book is also notable for the prestige of being the 2nd publication in our new City Lights Spotlight series.
Anselm is one of the foremost poets of his generation, very well-loved in his native NYC, where he was the artistic director of St. Marks Poetry Project for several years. He comes from a well-known poetic lineage (father Ted Berrigan, mother Alice Notley), associated with a well-known literary group (the New York School). Anselm's poems are often complex but always accessible, even as he pushes further and further into experimental terrain. He's a younger writer who teaches at a number of colleges, and has a voice and perspective that appeals to college-age students. His work will, of course, be of interest to an older fan base, those who like his parents', Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Anselm's book is unique in its format; one long poem is made of numerous short poems all with the same title, and another long poem is made of several differently-titled short poems. The long poem is linked together by a single shorter poem. It is ambitious without being forbidding. Free Cell book is also notable for the prestige of being the 2nd publication in our new City Lights Spotlight series.
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Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Some Notes on My Programming. The poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2005, UCal Press) and former Director of St. Marks Poetry Project, Berrigan teaches at Pratt Institute and Wesleyan, and the Milton Avery Graduate School.
For "The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan," edited by Anselm and Edmund Berrigan and Alice Notley: "a major volume of 20th-century American poetry, bringing together everything Berrigan (1934-1983) would or could have published. Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons (both poets) have meticulously re-edited Berrigan's books--he took the book as a real unit of composition--incorporating late drafts and fixes, and carefully re-formatting his very intentionally spaced open field verse." - Publishers Weekly
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