I got Ted Berrigan's collected yesterday. I hesitated at the price, and knew that I won't for a while have a lot of time to read it, but acquiesced. I really like Berrigan but there's more to it than that. I admire his the dedication to complete process evident in his work as one reads it. Anselm writes somewhere (might've been a post to Poetics) that Ted read everything and anything, but you can tell that just from reading. his openness derives from his dedication. this dedication allows for an exemplary freedom to experiment and play. I could goon, into the bogs of blurbdom, but will just say that he remedies a lot of the capable 2nd rate busy charm school poetry that one finds so often.