Anselm Berrigan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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contemporary primevalist, with poems

Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems
Alice Notley
Krystal Languell & I had a convo on her book Systems Thinking With Flowers, in which we delved into the poems and covered many walks of life with humor and sensitivity of a type -- no less an authority than Alice Notley described it as "geeky" https://t.co/eSf0ab7tFU
Paperback, 1998
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011
Misha Glenny
@oh_that_zoe two books I've read that take that on a bit -- The Vanquished, by Robert Gerwarth; & The Ottoman Endgame, by Sean McMeekin -- there's also The Balkans, by Misha Glenny -- none of these are comprehensive on the subject, but worth picking up from a library and checking out
Paperback, 2012
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Be Holding: A Poem
Ross Gay
@dhami I also think that Ross Gay poem is great, and I think my father's poem Tamborine Life is ultimately a poem suffused with happiness.
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Quite Apart: Poems
Krystal Languell
Krystal Languell & I had a convo on her book Systems Thinking With Flowers, in which we delved into the poems and covered many walks of life with humor and sensitivity of a type -- no less an authority than Alice Notley described it as "geeky" https://t.co/eSf0ab7tFU
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Soap
Francis Ponge
some salsa I forgot about spilled at the bottom of my backpack & now my copy of Francis Ponge's Soap, in translation, has new colors at its lower edges.
Paperback, 1998
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth
@oh_that_zoe two books I've read that take that on a bit -- The Vanquished, by Robert Gerwarth; & The Ottoman Endgame, by Sean McMeekin -- there's also The Balkans, by Misha Glenny -- none of these are comprehensive on the subject, but worth picking up from a library and checking out
Paperback, 2017
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Systems Thinking with Flowers
Krystal Languell
Krystal Languell & I had a convo on her book Systems Thinking With Flowers, in which we delved into the poems and covered many walks of life with humor and sensitivity of a type -- no less an authority than Alice Notley described it as "geeky" https://t.co/eSf0ab7tFU
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal
John Yau
Tyhe Cooper's review of the new Joe Brainard monograph, all of the writing on JB done in one long terrific essay by John Yau: https://t.co/xdV3FDl7QR
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Sean McMeekin
@oh_that_zoe two books I've read that take that on a bit -- The Vanquished, by Robert Gerwarth; & The Ottoman Endgame, by Sean McMeekin -- there's also The Balkans, by Misha Glenny -- none of these are comprehensive on the subject, but worth picking up from a library and checking out
Paperback, 2016
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Upend
Claire Hong
Simone White asked a bunch of poets to write about a poem in 100 words and list three books of late or semi-late we especially dug -- hard to just do three - but I put together a little list and wrote 100 words on Claire Meuschke's 2020 book Upend: https://t.co/FAj59OTL1E
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book