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Synopsis
Poetry. SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING finds Anselm Berrigan, Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, once more in funny, irritable, tip-top form. Surveying the Bush-era cultural landscape and not liking what it sees, the poetry herein confronts that reality in terms disgusted ("The group is/an asshole./Self-censorship/is the American avant-garde") and terrifying ("Dreamt I was chopping off fingers/of mine with audience. Not cool"), encompassing odd disclosure ("I don't want my brother to get a job ever") and biting satire ("Osama passes/George the bong/bitching about 21st century/hydroponic weed"). And yet, even if we are all just "Trained Meat," as the title of one poem suggests, the work here never gives in to despair; we may be "under attack/in mourning/all at once" but we also "better make//room for each/grief letting/me see what/lines and/lies/not to take/and how/moment/by moment/to be." A fantastic and necessary book.
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About the Author
Anselm Berrigan (born 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is a poet and teacher. He grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. He is the brother of poet and musician Edmund Berrigan, half-brother of Kate Berrigan and scientist David Berrigan, son of poets Alice Notley and the late Ted Berrigan, and stepson of the late English poet and prose writer Douglas Oliver. He has also lived in Buffalo, NY at the "Ranch" and was known lovingly as "Anton" in San Francisco, CA. He is a co-chair of the writing program at the Bard College summer MFA program and a professor at Wesleyan University. He has also taught writing at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Pratt Institute, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa.
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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, were active over two decades beginning in the 1960s. Like his previous collections Integrity & Dramatic Life (1999) and Zero Star Hotel (2002), this book draws on the present tension inherent within that public-private history, but moves resolutely outward into "my liberty's consistent dread." The 30-some-odd poems work in a high velocity idiom that is part New York School talking-from-the-hip, part kitchen-sink-ADD and part "gravitas to besmirch turn a/ chiseled phrase into unstable air in which I delight acuity 'do I want anyone to understand my dream? No. Never.' " Yet almost every poem contains trenchant responses to the current state of war, from "a big fucking crater downtown/ & I am inhaling corpse dust/ at 3:22 pm on West Broadway" to "blood-rich anti-war diction/ looking forward to serving." Continuing to develop his distinct poetic, Berrigan stitches these notes into intense missives to our "psychotic rates of exchange," drawing light and beauty from "our sheathed collateral wreckage." (July)
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