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Free Cell
Reader comment | Sep 14, 2009, Garrett Caples, City Lights Spotlight Editor
As editor of our Spotlight poetry series, I wanted to start with a bang on both coasts, so, after the first volume by San Francisco's Norma Cole, the choice of New York’s Anselm Berrigan was obvious to me. I’ve been a fan since his first book came out in 1999 and his poetry just gets further and further out there, as evidenced by Free Cell, his fourth full-length collection, which is his most challenging and original work so far, and which we are proud to publish as #2 in the Spotlight series...more. There’s an almost cubist quality to his fragmentation of everyday, ready-made phrases, even as he develops his own idiosyncratic idiom, reflecting the harried existence of a poet in NYC. Beyond my admiration for his poetry, Berrigan fit one of the essential criteria for the series: that the poet has never published with a major press, a large independent, or any of the bigger university presses. Among our goals for the series, we seek to promote poets from the innovative small-press community who have yet to have a chance for a wider platform. Berrigan is exactly the type of poet we want to publish.
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Table of Contents and first 12 pages from Free Cell
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