Notes from Irrelevance

This generous book-length poem is an investigation of the author's unique personal history as it entwines with his present role as poet, citizen, and "one of the six billion-plus."

The hope of a plurality
of recognition guides
us into, back into, our
common definition of
caring . . . /em>

Anselm Berrigan is the author of Free Cell, Some Notes on My Programming, and Zero Star Hotel, among others. He is the current poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail and the former director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. He lives in New York.