Ted Berrigan

In addition to his book, "The Sonnets," this annotated edition includes seven of Berrigan's previously uncollected poems focusing on friendship and love triangles.

The Sonnets

Interviews with Ted Berrigan

Talking in Tranquility

Richard Brautigan

Lewis Warsh

Bill Berkson

Robert Creeley

Michael Bond

Jim Carroll

Aram Saroyan

Tom Clark

Alice Notley

Anne Waldman

Joe Brainard

Bill Brown

Philip Whalen

Stephen Ratcliffe

Diane Di Prima

John Thorpe

David Meltzer

Lewis MacAdams

Phoebe MacAdams

Joel Weishaus

Arthur Okamura

Max Crosley

Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Duncan Mc Naughton

Jim Brodey

Ebbe Borregaard

Joanne Kyger

John Doss

Gailyn Saroyan

Keith Lampe

Lawrence Kearney

Charlie Vermont

Poetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BOLINAS WRITING in celebration of its 50th anniversary. This is a gathering of poets, writers and artists living on or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Not so much a school of thought as a meeting of those who happened to be at this geographical location at this wobbly point in time, several divergent movements in American poetry (Black Mountain, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York School poets) came together with new Western and mystic elements at the unpaved crossroads of Bolinas. Featuring work by: Gordin Bladwin, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Michael Bond, Ebbe Borregaard, Joe Brainard, Richard Brautigan, Jim Brodey, Bill Brown, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, Max Crosley, Diane Di Prima, John Doss, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Lawrence Kearney, Joanne Kyger, Keith Lampe, Lewis Macadams, Phoebe Macadams, Duncan MC Naughton, David Meltzer, Alice Notley, Arthur Okamura, Stephen Ratcliffe, Aram Saroyan, Gailyn Saroyan, John Thorpe, Charlie Vermont, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Joel Weishaus, and Philip Whalen.

An Anthology of Bolinas Writers

On the Mesa

Ron Padgett

Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett's Bean Spasmsis the defining publication of the 1960s literary/Pop scene in New York. Originally published in 1967 by Kulchur Press in an edition of 1,000, and out of print for more than 40 years, Bean Spasmsis a book many have heard about but relatively few have seen, and which--until now--has been consequently shrouded in legend. The text is comprised of collaborations between poets Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett, with further writings, illustrations and cover by artist and writer Joe Brainard. The three began collaborating in 1960, and kept a folder of their works titled "Lyrical Bullets" (a humorous homage to the well-known collaboration between Coleridge and Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads). As Ron Padgett describes, in his introduction to this new facsimile edition, their collaborations included "plays, a fictitious correspondence, a picaresque novel, goofy interviews and poems of various types and lengths, as well as mistranslations and parodies of each other's work and the work of others." Poet friends dropping by during writing sessions would also add lines, and although Berrigan and Padgett also contributed visuals, and Brainard contributed texts, all works in the book were intentionally left unattributed. Full of wild wit and joy in experimentation, competition and collaboration, Bean Spasmsis a classic document of the New York School.

Collaborations

Bean Spasms

New & Selected Poems 1958-1979

So Going Around Cities

This landmark collection brings Ted Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry together in a single authoritative volume for the first time. Edited by the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons, The Collected Poems demonstrates the remarkable range, power, and importance of Berrigan's work.

The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan’s poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the “crazy energy” of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer. Praise for The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan: “This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and heart.”—Robert Creeley “Thanks to this invaluable Collected Poems, one can hear, as never before, Ted Berrigan dreaming his dream.”—The Nation “The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan is not only one of the most strikingly attractive books recently published, but is also a major work of 20th-century poetry. . . . It is a book that will darken with the grease of my hands. There is no better way to praise it than by saying, ‘If you enjoy poetry, you should have it.’” —Bloomsbury Review “It’s a must-have, a poetic knockout.”—Time Out New York

The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Derek Eaton Henderson

An Erasure of Ted Berrigan's the Sonnets

Thus And

Ron PADGETT

In advance of the broken arm. Poems ... Editor: Ted Berrigan. Cover & drawings Joe Brainard ... Second edition

Paul Williams

The Ted Berrigan Issue

Clear the Range

Intersection for the Arts

Poetry Reading, Tuesday July 20th, 8:30

Ted Berrigan and Robert Creeley

Memorial Day

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) is among his generation's most admired writers. In many respects, the directions followed in contemporary poetry were set out in the courses and workshops he taught at the Naropa Institute, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the City University of New York, the Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. On the Level Everyday brings together key examples of his classroom lectures with other pieces, including two important talks delivered at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York. On the Level Everyday provides an introduction not only to Berrigan's poetics but also the problems of surviving as a poet in America today.

Selected Talks on Poetry and the Art of Living

On the Level Everyday

A collection of poems by a major figure of the New York poetry scene in the 1960s chronicles everyday life in the city and offers selections from his 1967 work, "The Sonnets"

Selected Poems

In the Early Morning Rain

Family background, influence of parents; childhood and education in Providence, Rhode Island; Army experience in Korea; University of Tulsa in Oklahoma; friendship with Ron Padgett and other young poets and painters; writing poetry in New York; position of the poet in America; collaboration process between poets; work with Ron Padgett; sonnet form, modern sonnets and other poems.

Reminiscences of Ted Berrigan

George Schneeman

Aaron Fischer

By Lewis Warsh, Ted Berrigan. Artwork by George Schneeman. Contributions by Aaron Fischer.

An Annotated Checklist : Featuring Collaborations Between Ted Berrigan & George Schneeman

Ted Berrigan

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