More Gone: City Lights Spotlight No. 18

Synopsis

A Scion Of The New York School, Edmund Berrigan Grew Up In And Around Poetry. More Gone, Number 18 In Our Spotlight Poetry Series, Is His First Full-length Collection In A Decade, As Well As The First To Follow His Well-received Memoir Can It! Written In A Distinctive Mix Of New York Quotidian And Post-language Abstraction, More Gone Documents 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-- Edmund Berrigan.