by Anselm Berrigan | bio
Anselm Berrigan gives us a fresh dose of his discordant mind music.
To Hell With Sleep was written by the poet in the first months after
the birth of his daughter, mostly during brief periods of time when
he was half-awake or less so, letting the poetry be unthought within
its vehicle of eight seven-line slanting stanzas per session, of which
there were nine. The impulse driving the writing was to let sounds-
turning-toward-words follow from the intensified state of consciousness
the arrival of this baby initiated. No prescience, reflection, computer
tricks, formal appropriation, or plotting of any kind was used in the
in the writing of this work. Joy, fear, humor, sound, bafflement and
recognition-in-exchange-for-recognition were the instruments.
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