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Edmund Berrigan is the author of two books of poetry, Disarming Matter (Owl Press, 1999) and Glad Stone Children (Farfalla, 2008), and a memoir, Can It! (Letter Machine Editions, 2013). He is editor of The Selected Poems of Steve Carey (Sub Press, 2009), and is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan and Alice Notley of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2005) and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2010). He records and performs music as I Feel Tractor, and lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for More Gone:"Edmund Berrigan's More Gone follows his book
Can It! in the creation of a poetic universe of sonic fizz and
existential vulnerability. These poems are raucous artifacts of
whimsy, pain, and the intricate joy of carrying an interior world
into language. … In a sense, More Gone is a large-scale
sifting-through of the effects of living, both bewilderingly and
comfortably, as part of a poetry family (along with Alice Notley
and Anselm Berrigan) and within a wider tradition of New York
School poetics."—The Georgia Review
Praise for Edmund Berrigan:“I couldn’t help but recall my
all-time-favorite diary project, Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal.
Lyn Hejinian’s cycling musical motifs in My Life seemed to get
echoed by Can It!’s repetitive structures. Eileen Myles’s Chelsea
Girls and James Schulyer’s diaries and John Wieners’ 707 Scott
Street all came to mind.”—Andy Fitch“Eddie Berrigan gives a nod to
his lineage, acknowledging his upbringing as poetry’s child.
Berrigan’s music, laced with undercurrents of violence and tension,
is elegant and hysterically absurd by turns. These poems are a
blueprint for a new generation of young American Poets”—Brenda
Coultas“A rare sort of spy for the imperfect pitch”—John
Coletti“The strengths of the collection are multiple, from the
emotional content to the narrative threads that ride deep
throughout, and the breaks that exist between them through the
collage-aspect of the final text. Can It! is a book of memory,
comfort and being, and works through some difficult territory, from
the loss of his father to the loss of his step-father. In the end,
this is a conversation Berrigan is able to have through writing,
and one that we should consider ourselves fortunate enough to have
access to.”—Rob McLennan“Can It! is also a fully realized
post-Language-School work, sections of which strive to tear apart
Berrigan’s established personae and voices, and a playful tribute
to the avant-garde surrealist aesthetic that was ushered into
America nearly a century ago. … These styles and traditions jumble
together from section to section and form a whole that is rife with
Whitman-esque contradictions and pleasantly revels in its inability
to be pinned down in genre or intent.”—Janice Lee“Berrigan deserves
attention for offering up something new without chagrin and charged
with vitality. These are poems you may walk about in.”—Patrick
James Dunagan
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