“The political arrives in pieces, settling across his sprawling poems like dew or debris. Berrigan has always matched his experimental drive with a personable quality.” — Boston Globe Anselm Berrigan’s eighth collection of poems, Something for Everybody , is exactly as its title describes. Wide-ranging in forms, densities, and aesthetics—and written from numerous collaborations, prompts, and influences—these poems express poetry’s astonishing possibilities. At the same time, they evince this sin- gular poet’s consciousness in the here and now, as a family and community member looking at the seams of public life. For consciousness the world is décor: sentences cast about For bodies in the exuberant wobble factory Q-Bert believes In me in the dark to pass out and check yourself out gliding By storefront windows searching for a feeling no one’s felt In the last twelve seconds lathered with coeval nightmare Rhetoric of sociable extinction bashful as a wraith eking out A line of image extract to sprinkle on a plenty reeling mind. . . Anselm Berrigan is the editor of What is Poetry? (Just Kidding , I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983–2009) , and is the author of many books of poetry, most recently Come In Alone and Primitive State . From 2003 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. He is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts interdisciplinary MFA program and also teaches part-time at Brooklyn College.