light oh light

Author: Sandy Berrigan

Publisher: Wry Press (2024)

Sandy Berrigan recently moved to the Bay Area after many years in Albion, Ca. Author of Daily Rites (Telephone Books, 1974), and Summer Sleeper (Telephone Books, 1981), she has also over the years self-published a number of other rare & fugitive works, occasionally featuring artwork by painter George Schneeman. Poet Ron Silliman has noted that with Berrigan “it’s her writing & the ways in which she embedded poetry into her life, always a part of it, never the center” which defined her influence on his own work.

Light Oh Light is the first publication of a series of fragments written during the 1980s; mental refractions of a W.S. Merwin reading in Hawaii, or abstracted, glancing impressions of both artworks & visitors on a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Light and thought both solid & fleeting, chiseled into words which dissolve in “light clear air”.