Don't Forget to Love Me

Don't Forget to Love MeDescription Reviews In his latest collection, Don't Forget to Love Me, Anselm Berrigan is at his most intimate, allowing us to tag along through the immediate histories of present moments in poems that were primarily written at the height of the pandemic. In reading these poems, we are permitted to witness their creation, as Berrigan pivots between semiotic slippage and shrewd assertions, letting the form of each poem take shape as it will, a surprise

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon collects 27 new and previously published exercises and their emerging poems

is full of strong poems

Following the poet’s recent prose work on the historical and ecological conflicts of the American West

and extends his powers in poems that encompass a wider emotional range

I need to be with my friends

With a group of confessional lyrics that reveal dreams

becoming urgent and surprisingly funny

I love how varied the poems are

At a time when hybridity often seems to equate

) In any case

The book is a philosophical and personal exploration of what the color blue has done to Nelson

poem to poem