{"product_id":"something-for-everybody-paperback","title":"Something for Everybody - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnselm Berrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnselm Berrigan's eighth collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eSomething for Everybody\u003c\/em\u003e, is exactly as its title describes. Wide-ranging in forms, densities, and aesthetics--and written from numerous collaborations, prompts, and influences--these poems express poetry's astonishing possibilities. At the same time, they evince this sin- gular poet's consciousness in the here and now, as a family and community member looking at the seams of public life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor consciousness the world is d cor: sentences cast about\u003cbr\u003eFor bodies in the exuberant wobble factory Q-Bert believes\u003cbr\u003eIn me in the dark to pass out and check yourself out gliding\u003cbr\u003eBy storefront windows searching for a feeling no one's felt\u003cbr\u003eIn the last twelve seconds lathered with coeval nightmare\u003cbr\u003eRhetoric of sociable extinction bashful as a wraith eking out\u003cbr\u003eA line of image extract to sprinkle on a plenty reeling mind. . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnselm Berrigan \u003c\/strong\u003eis the editor of \u003cem\u003eWhat is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983-2009)\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the author of many books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eCome In Alone \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePrimitive State\u003c\/em\u003e. From 2003 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. He is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program and also teaches part-time at Brooklyn College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnselm Berrigan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of \u003cem\u003eWhat is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983-2009)\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the author of several books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eSomething for Everybody \u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2018), \u003cem\u003eCome In Alone\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, May 2016), \u003cem\u003ePrimitive State\u003c\/em\u003e (Edge, 2015), \u003cem\u003eNotes from Irrelevance\u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2011), \u003cem\u003eFree Cell\u003c\/em\u003e (City Lights Books, 2009), \u003cem\u003eSome Notes on My Programming\u003c\/em\u003e (Edge, 2006), \u003cem\u003eZero Star Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e (Edge, 2002), and \u003cem\u003eIntegrity and Dramatic Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books: \u003cem\u003eLoading\u003c\/em\u003e, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and \u003cem\u003eSkasers\u003c\/em\u003e, with poet John Coletti (Flowers \u0026amp; Cream, 2012). His chapbooks include \u003cem\u003ePregrets\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2014), and \u003cem\u003eSure Shot\u003c\/em\u003e (Overpass, 2013). He is the current poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan\u003c\/em\u003e (U. California, 2005) and the \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems of Ted Berrigan\u003c\/em\u003e (U. California, 2011). A member of the subpress publishing collective, he has published \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems of Steve Carey \u003c\/em\u003e(2009) and \u003cem\u003eYour Ancient See Through\u003c\/em\u003e by Hoa Nguyen (2002). From 2003-2007 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.9 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769859604768,"sku":"9781940696799","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7852e2199289d3d552d902de2c409e5f.webp?v=1780358467","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/something-for-everybody-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}