Notes from Irrelevance

By Anselm Berrigan Description Reviews I at some point decided to be—or became, understanding later— influenced by, potentially,anything...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.” Notes is a stunning statement to a world that has made artifacts of absolutes...Michael Brodeur, The Boston GlobeAs a poem addressed to you as much as to anyone, these Notes from Irrelevance are in their fierceness finally, deeply relevant. Roy Scranton, Boston ReviewNotes From Irrelevance is a long weave of sentence shimmers with influences of someone who has read and absorbed a rich range, from classics to the most experimental, making each phrasing kinetic with questions about the way he has experienced sound and the sight of letters. Barbara Berman, The RumpusThis single stanza, book-length poem is a compilation of such linguistically rich and syntactical