Something for Everybody by Anselm Berrigan

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Something for Everybody by Anselm BerriganAnselm Berrigans eighth collection of poems, Something for Everybody, is exactly as its title describes. Wide ranging in forms, densities, and aestheticsand written from numerous collaborations, prompts, and influencesthese poems express poetrys astonishing possibilities. At the same time, they evince this singular poets consciousness in the here and now, as a family and community member looking at the seams of public life.

some slippery new layer at every turn

with names like Lonnie

to enjoy our bodies and our lives while we still have them

the inspiration behind the long poem he would eventually write called The Bridge

read this book to be put in your place

found-verse collages

initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject

was excerpted and praised in The New York Times

and a 'honey-mint whisper / of eucalyptus

written during the Coronavirus pandemic—for readers who are more likely to double-tap Instapoems than put their phone down long enough to read The Decameron

and revelatory fashion—poems that mesmerize with sheer velocity and telling pauses

It fills me with words

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