{"product_id":"more-gone-by-edmund-berrigan","title":"Berrigan, Edmund: More Gone","description":"\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books (paperback, 2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A 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\u003eMore 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","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31758216069143,"sku":"9780872867666","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/edber.gif?v=1600814852","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/more-gone-by-edmund-berrigan","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}