Rectangular poems that loop around the page for a unique reading experience
Language that is both inviting and uncanny, constantly recontextualizing familiar words
Formal experimentation defies classical, contemporary, academic, and experimental categories
Open-ended structure allows for multiple readings and reader involvement
Includes reviews and critical acclaim from leading literary publications
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By Anselm Berrigan
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New York poet Anselm Berrigan plays with space like a painter with the prosody of a poet. Written as infinitely looping sentences around the page, the rectangular poems of Come In Alone act as a frame to space, outrunning thought with quickness, openness, humor, and protest. They are simultan