Manual

<p><em>Manual</em> the sixth volume in the ongoing series of Richard Berengarten's <em>Selected Writings</em> is an ambitious work-in-progress a single poem whose central theme is human hands.</p><p></p><p>This collection is divided into five sequences and subdivided into one hundred small poems with two frame-pieces at the start and end. Numerological patterning an articulated feature of much of Berengarten's writing occurs in each poem's formal structure: ten lines ten fingers; two stanzas two hands.</p>