Primitive State

By Anselm Berrigan

Poetry. PRIMITIVE STATE is a book- length tour-de-force from one of contemporary poetry's strongest search-lights. Composed as an homage to the list poem as "a catalog of consciousness-beats," the result is a long poem peculiarly perfect for twitter. Written across the fall and winter of 2008-09 as a continuous arrangement of deadpan observations, a comic reboot of the poet's writing mind, and partial portrait of the poet's then one year-old daughter, PRIMITIVE STATE is a work simultaneously spontaneous and exact, at once open-ended and satisfyingly immediate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189031143X
• ISBN13: 9781890311438
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Edge Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"