Something for Everybody

By Anselm Berrigan

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• Anselm Berrigan’s eighth collection of poems, Something for Everybody, 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 singular poet’s consciousness in the here and now, as a family and community member looking at the seams of public life.
  
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• Throughout, Berrigan reframes and transforms unexamined routine into moments of energized space to promote fresh ways of engaging reality. That this is achieved without strain is a remarkable testament to Berrigan’s serious commitment to play as a compositional porthole through which the mundane becomes magic
  Tony Leuzzi, Brooklyn Rail

  As Berrigan puts the sense of magic spell back into the word charm, I sense somewhat of a post-punk ethos, as well as the Shakespearean Foole at his most linguistically complex.
  Chris Stroffolino, Boog City

  Whether he’s riffing like a jazz musician or clipping like a radio scanning through channels, Berrigan sets a surreal mood appropriate for increasingly apocalyptic and hallucinatory times. . . . Berrigan is always up for an experiment, and his clever and deeply human work soothes as a balm against the irritations of daily life.
  Publishers Weekly