More Gone

Description

"A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone, number 18 in our Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow his well-received memoir Can It! Written in a distinctive mix of New York quotidian and post-Language abstraction, More Gone documents the poet's search for domestic tranquility amidst the city that never sleeps. Berrigan draws on a variety of materials, from songs to found language, assembling them into poems of oblique humor and wry perspective on the challenges of everyday existence"--