or, as Eddie said last night to a general audience of interested persons, in order to be obscure someone else has to actually know you’re obscure April 16, 2010: It’s uselessly unhip to penetrate a machine gun and asset a relationship with modern consciousness, which is a perfectly devoured bug off the hind leg of some preserved thing. (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Tings April 13, 2010: Emerson apparently wrote to a student or former student of his and instructed him not to get overly involved with his reading so as to be able to move with enough rapidity through any number of other reading possibilities, to go into books looking for the material needed, get it and get out, often enough, so as to keep moving. (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

April 11, 2010: Allison Cobb has written a terrific book on, through, and with the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The book, Green-Wood, an instantly compelling and fluid read I’m finding thus far, made of prose and poetry driven by a thoroughly researched and idiosyncratic historical sensibility in combination with six years’ worth of daily walks through [...] by Anselm Berrigan

Further notes from irrelevance April 7, 2010: (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Just folded, like a handkerchief or a hinge. April 5, 2010: These prefab greens are part of a sale system of red dots reserved for those whose demise was thought predetermined by the timing of their abuses. (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Hand of the grain the sand smote January 14, 2010: The (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Two more (cups of coffee then I’ll go) January 11, 2010: Why do so many readers at poetry readings announce having two poems left to read? When I signed my contract to become a poet there was no clause as to this matter, (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Trigger Cuts January 5, 2010: The on-going review-interviews taking place over at Lemon Hound have my attention at the moment (I’m one of the interviewees, an admission that I suppose qualifies as full disclosure here if you believe such a thing exists in the demi-world of warm soft fact), (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

Starting in on Marina’s question December 31, 2009: I just heard someone say about another someone that “she likes to date guys who wear ironic hats.” I prefer unplanned irony, personally speaking, which is another way of saying I don’t pay any attention to the matter unless someone like Rudy Giuliani has the accidental nerve to publicly state “If I can make it, it’s not art.” (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

With regards to the Crackademy December 26, 2009: The top ten illnesses in our household in 2009 have been: roto virus, lyme disease, sinus infection, common cold, pink eye, swine flu, pink eye redux, occasional faint echoes (more...) by Anselm Berrigan