{"product_id":"9781940696799-something-for-everybody","title":"Something for Everybody","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA diverse set of poems from a deeply connected poet writing from the center of contemporary New York.\u003cbr\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor consciousness the world is décor: 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\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420534161782,"sku":"9781940696799","price":15.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33676067.jpg?v=1748971341","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781940696799-something-for-everybody","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}