Alice Notley, Author, Ted Berrigan, Author, Alice Notley, Editor Penguin Books $12.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-058699-2
Berrigan (1934-1983) was a prolific poet and, many feel, a major figure of the second generation New York School poets. The highlight of this collection is its grand finale, a hefty selection from Berrigan's 1967 volume, The Sonnets , which changed...
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Ted Berrigan, Author Blue Wind Press $34.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-912652-61-0
For those who only know The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan's So Going Around Cities: New and Selected Poems 1958-1979 will be a revelation. The poem ""Redshift"" (""I'm only pronouns, & I am all of them"") alone is worth the price of admission here, but...
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Ted Berrigan, edited by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett, Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $19.95 paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-56689-249-0
In 1962, poet Ted Berrigan (The Sonnets) was an unknown New York writer. While visiting New Orleans, he eloped with 19-year-old Sandy Alper. Suspecting Ted of drug use, Sandy’s parents “became frightened and irrational” and had her involuntarily...
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Ted Berrigan, Author, Alice Notley, Editor, Alice Notley, Introduction by Penguin Books $18 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-058927-6
The sonnet, in Berrigan's hands (and scissors), was as much an arbitrary frame for experience as a traditional form. In her introduction and notes to this fifth and definitive printing of her late first husband's 1963 collage masterpiece, poet Alice
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Ted Berrigan, Author, Anselm Berrigan, Editor, Edmund Berrigan, Editor . Univ. of California $49.95 (749p) ISBN 978-0-520-23986-9
More than 20 years in preparation, this is a major volume of 20th-century American poetry, bringing together everything that the Providence, R.I.–born Berrigan (1934–1983) would or could have published. Notley (Disobedience
, etc.),...
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Edited by Edmund Berrigan et al. City Lights, $21.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-87286-895-3
Poet Ted Berrigan (The Sonnets) complemented his poetry with an uneven prose output, as seen in this “highly idiosyncratic body of work,” as described in the introduction by his son Anselm. Journal entries provide glimpses of the 1960s poetry scene:
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