For Brooklyn poet Anselm Berrigan, the political arrives in pieces,
settling across his sprawling poems like dew or debris. Berrigan has
always matched his experimental drive with a personable
quality.--Michael Brodeur, Boston Globe
Anselm Berrigan's voice continues be one of the most refreshing in
contemporary American poetry. --Virginia Konchan, Galatea Resurrects
In Come in Alone, Anselm Berrigan plays with space like a painter with
the prosody of a poet. Written as infinitely looping sentences around
the page, the poems act as a frame to space, outrunning thought with
quickness, openness, humor, and protest. They are simultaneously
inviting and impermeable, making familiar language uncanny with every
turn around the page.
pre-labor stress with all-star fatigue as day glo habit turning
exquisite grime into corners
Anselm Berrigan is the current poetry editor for the Brooklyn
Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of the
Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the
Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). From 2003 to
2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's
Church, where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four
years. He is Co-Chair of Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of
the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program, and also teaches part-time at
Brooklyn College. He was awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and in 2014 he was awarded a Robert
Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. He was a
New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow in Poetry for 2007, and
has received three grants from the Fund for Poetry. He lives in New York
City, where he also grew up.
