The Sonnets
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship and love triangles, but while the former happen chronologically, Berrigan's happen in the moment, with the story buried beneath a surface of names, repetitions, and fragmented experience. Reflecting the new American sensibilities of the 1960's as well as timeless poetic themes, The Sonnets is both eclectic and classical — the poems are monumental riddles worth contemplating.
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October 1, 2000Ted Berrigan, poetic and inspiratinal genius of the second generation of the New York School Poets, was born in Providence, Rhode Isalnd, on November 15, 1934. He was educated at La Salle Academy in Providence and, after sixteen months in Korea as a soldier, at the University of Tulsa (on the GI Bill). During the 1960's he lived in New York's Lower East Side, writing city poems, publishing the exciting and unique "C" Magazine and "C" Press books, writing art criticism, and playing leader to a group of young poets and appreciators of poetry. Later he was Writer In Residence, Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, etc. at such places as The Writers Workshop (University of Iowa), the University of…
The Sonnets
Ted Berrigan
Shade is a place
MaKshya Tolbert
Mesopotopia
Anne Waldman
End of Empire
Marissa Davis
Is This My Final Form?
Amy Gerstler
the space between men
Mia S. Willis
Hivestruck
Vincent Toro
mother
m.s. RedCherries
Being Reflected Upon
Alice Notley
Colorfast
Rose McLarney
Thick with Trouble
Amber McBride
Organs of Little Importance
Adrienne Chung
Tarta Americana
J. Michael Martinez
Information Desk
Robyn Schiff
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes