More Gone

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 ReviewPraise 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