Pregrets by Anselm Berrigan

With Pregrets, Anselm Berrigan captures environs and tonal intrusions that compose thought-break as society—a reflection of the seemingly scattered populace, where the all is broken while becoming thought, "unity would like/its finked deproductions back." If we remove a cogent arc, the dips and peaks of our lives become weirdly accessible, where each observed indentation of skin on skin action becomes a jeweled aphorism, a telegrammed imagistic, from u to us—"I'm a covered base levitating carry-ons into sub-extinction." Berrigan synthesizes time's arrival as an act of pregret, by giving us regrets to degret from, now he's got me doing it! The breathless yet finite scrawl of these poems—ecosystems of empowerment that infuse the neighborhood walk with the centered page—re-train listening as a sort of ekphrasis of unfolding, to capture the journey's foundation with a delicate insistence on the everyday apogee found between the words, "being a thingless/telephat," of the poet to reader, "give my love to the air out there."

So Pregrets I figure at origins that already have some kind of affect/karma but don't have to add up. A huge relief. This work is all about duration and mind and space, and Time as spiral. Often like a dream text with that crazy "other" fluttering in wild tandem.