{"product_id":"more-gone-city-lights-spotlight-no-18-9780872867666","title":"More Gone: City Lights Spotlight No. 18","description":"\u003cp\u003eA scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir \u003cem\u003eCan It \u003c\/em\u003eWritten in a distinctive mix of New York quotidian and post-Language abstraction, \u003cem\u003e More Gone \u003c\/em\u003edocuments the poet's search for domestic tranquility amidst the city that never sleeps. Berrigan draws on a variety of materials, from songs to found language, assembling them into poems of oblique humor and wry perspective on the challenges of everyday existence. These poems aren't anecdotes or confessions so much as objects in their own right, even as they remain rooted in a recognizable urban landscape: \"Mostly, the city is begging for love, grieving, \/ or telling us to back the fuck off.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, Eddie Berrigan shows so much writing savvy it has long sleeves, on which he wears his heart. There are poems with strategic non sequiturs which yield an inherent logic that convinces and leads to unfamiliar perceptions. There are multi-line riffs during which he works the count, throwing three or four different pitches. The last will look like a fastball, but it's a slider, low and away, and down you go. In simpler compositions he redirects you with subtle shifts of time and context. He includes himself, which gives a poem its worth. A vulnerable and movingly confident self. He impresses with deep impressions.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Godfrey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The language employed in Edmund Berrigan's \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e infuses itself on the lateral plane, variegated as it is by glints from particulars that rely 'on sensory input to motion.' He teases beauty out of terminus via tenuous electrification. One feels clarity evince itself through an opaque psychic transparency, a transparency that magically filters lingual seepage. Thus, our consciousness is marked by an incremental elevation providing us with an experience of language that engages our capacity to cast greater light on the stark complexity that we optically imbibe as daily reality.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eWill Alexander\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Edmund Berrigan's poems may be 'more gone, ' but they are also \u003cem\u003emore here\u003c\/em\u003e. 'Anxious, patient and sentient, ' they happen at an intimate core of self, family, community, and world, webbing out in all our neighboring shades and activities of being, where experience glitches and knits. They are rollercoastery, beautiful, knowing, revelatory, and real.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eEleni Sikelianos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872867666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Edmund Berrigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645487083676,"sku":"9780872867666","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bc053aef-f3ad-4355-9f44-feee94a86d89.jpg?v=1603861232","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/more-gone-city-lights-spotlight-no-18-9780872867666","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}