cover image So Going Around Cities: New & Selected

So Going Around Cities: New & Selected

Ted Berrigan. Blue Wind Press, $34.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-912652-61-0

For those who only know The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan's So Going Around Cities: New and Selected Poems 1958-1979 will be a revelation. The poem ""Redshift"" (""I'm only pronouns, & I am all of them"") alone is worth the price of admission here, but the book, assembled by Berrigan and first published a few years before his death in 1983, includes a wide selection from among more than 14 separate projects-more than 200 poems in all, including the classic '60s-isms of ""Bean Spasms.""