<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Spotlight</TitleText>

City Lights Books transfers@onixsuite.com 20130919 eng

COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865020 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100708280 02 0872865029 03 9780872865020 15 9780872865020 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Spotlight</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Free Cell</TitleText> 1 A01 Berrigan, Anselm Anselm Berrigan Anselm Berrigan's poetry collections include Zero Star Hotel and Some Notes on My Programming (Edge Books 2002, 2006). The poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (California, 2005), and former director of St. Mark's Poetry Project, Berrigan teaches at the Pratt Institute and Wesleyan, and directs the summer writing program at the Milton Avery Graduate School. Berrigan writes for <a target="blank" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/">Harriet</a>, a blog from the Poetry Foundation. 01 eng 100 00 100 03 20 experimental poetry;new york;poetry;politics 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <a target="blank" href="http://www.citylightspodcast.com/anselm-berrigan-norma-cole-launch-new-city-lights-poetry-series/"></a>Listen to Anselm Berrigan read from Free Cell at our City Lights podcast page. The second installment of the City Lights Spotlight poetry series, Free Cell is the latest collection from Anselm Berrigan, one of the most significant American poets under 40. Consisting of two experimental suites—"Have a Good One" and "To Hell with Sleep"—connected by the central poem "Let Us Sample Protection Together," Free Cell is Berrigan's most ambitious work to date, a spiritual autobiography wrapped in an exploration of form. His work combines the freneticism of his New York environment with oblique humor, political angst, and a reflective, lyrical interrogation of his own subjectivity: "For my part it's/ been an honor/ to be at someone's/ service, though doing/ so has diminished/ my expiration date/ and my astral self-/ projection has already/ fled in bitter tears/ having used up even addiction." "Step outside with your language as Anselm Berrigan moves the parts about, seeing them dive through distress to rally with duly measured exhortation. The pitch is feverish: a topical Season in Hell, restorative history lessons during intermission, followed by a kind of precisely tumbling Grosse Fugue. The sensations never quit. (Poetry's our sole 'hedge against protection'?) This is a book to clear the decks." —Bill Berkson "Impacted, trenchant, turbulent, heartbreaking and funny too, Free Cell is one poet's free fall through the streaming kaleidoscopic pixilated cacophony of now. Anselm Berrigan has consistently, and always boldly, delivered the news of his generation's angle of incident." —Peter Gizzi "The world of Free Cell keeps repeating "have a good one" over and over, in anger, in sarcasm, and also just because it's what one needs to hear to keep going. Anselm Berrigan is the poet of the bodily breakdown, the poet of lyric memory, the poet that is this testy and yet also beautiful world needs right now." —Juliana Spahr 02 The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series—experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director. 08 "Berrigan may have learned some of his disjunctive sprawl and spontaneity from his famous poet parents, Alice Notley and especially Ted Berrigan, but his poems have a kind of slacker cool and political awareness all his own . . . he is carrying his parents' tradition of poetry as a way of life, a community, proudly into the 21st century." —Publishers Weekly Publisher's Weekly 08 "Free Cell is the latest collection of free-verse poetry from writing instructor and dedicated poet Anselm Berrigan. The words themselves revel in the freedom to assume any shape in this smoothly rolling collection of musings and insights. The natural flow of the verbal rhythm serves as the perfect counterpoint to the thought-provoking commentary in this excellent collection. 'Frailty puckers up to present': Frailty puckers up to present / gibberish in the agri-fab / spamways, helicopter can’t / swim, can’t junk tribal / penance for living off natty / whims so many pairs of / pants deny in fever’s dash. // The routine bites hard, ooze / a rapt factory heir teething / sway, ye olde time cleaners / spun off a granted project / of abeyance in the deep / trim that art savors, bent- / like, creaming dabbles.’" —James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review The Midwest Book Review 08 "[Berrigan] digests and mercilessly composts an endless variety of speech, with an excellent ear for the comedy of the banal—the sounds of corporate brainstorming sessions, rich people, even the unsympathetic reader. . . When he writes 'I like moving / your careful parts about,' he must be addressing Language, and reading this poem one gets the impression Berrigan may go on moving her parts indefinitely, as he follows the ominous momentum of these poems ‘Back to the brink, as ever.’" — Julia Powers, The Brooklyn Rail The Brooklyn Rail 08 "Anselm Berrigan's voice continues be one of the most refreshing in contemporary American poetry, for its singular welding of candor, political awareness, and humor that attempts, with a very high rate of success, to co-opt the commercial and political jargon of our times to return it to higher purposes (which here include but are not limited to free speech, dead-on paeans to and condemnations of contemporary life, and love)." —Virginia Konchan Galatea Resurrects 08 "Anselm Berrigan's free radical poetry chops your hands off mid-line, drops the book into your lap, and caresses you with disquiet indie pop allusions and echoes of ubiquitous advertising absurdities as it cheers on that last ill-intentioned pint before the crestfallen exit from the pub on a Monday night while ambitiously and unambiguously telling you it might not be OK, but I wouldn't know anyway." —Jason Eric Jensen The Brake Lights 08 "The lines through-out are high strung wires of speech act and innovative lyric. . . . [The work] could be climbed for days, years even. Yet it isn't insurmountable. It unravels with enough common linguistic rope to be followed by a smart and curious kid. The kid has to want to make the climb and that is one of the hardest tricks to pull off with integrity intact. Anselm does his best, using varied speeds, humor, drama, flat conceptual art movements giving pause to heightened lyricism, sharp images, double speak, puns, weird juxtapositions. Yet the integrity part is an essential element. It isn't any trick at all, but an intuitive sense of felt empathy which is the biggest carrot to the untried reader." awdart.vox.com 08 "These are poems about getting by in the human universe through 'the icing of all personal / bureaucracies,' offices of existence where small and large injustices trigger passions within us that cannibalize us down to appetizers until we can regenerate in the company of fellow travelers." —Paul Killebrew The Poetry Project Newsletter 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100708280/extras/FreeCellExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100708280/images/87286100708280L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100708280/images/87286100708280S.jpg 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100708280/extras/Sarah_interview_with_Anselm.MP3 http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100708280 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20090827 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 20090827 01 02 13.95 USD