Ted Berrigan

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Edmund Joseph Michael "Ted" Berrigan Jr. (born November 15, 1934 in Providence , Rhode Island , † July 4, 1983 ) was an American poet of the New York School direction. A selection of his poems, edited by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , was published in 1970 by the März-Verlag .

Life

Ted Berrigan comes from an Irish Catholic family, he attended Providence Catholic College in his hometown for a year before joining the US Army in 1954 and serving in Korea , among other places , but saw no fighting. He then studied at the University of Tulsa , Oklahoma with the GI Bill of Rights and earned his BA in English Literature in 1959. He left the university in 1962 without an MA degree. In 1962 he married Sandra Alper, with whom he had two children (David and Kate). The family moved to New York in 1960.

In 1971 he married the poet Alice Notley . Her two children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan, also became poets.

poetry

The 1964 Sonnets are believed to be Berrigan's most famous book . He published mainly in small publishers and in alternative magazines, which were made by poets practically only for poets. With Lorenz Gude as publisher, Berrigan published the first of twelve issues of the C-A Journal of the Arts in May 1963 . There were also two C comics and some books. The immediate forerunner of C was Ron Padgett's The Censored Review of 1963, with contributions banned from Columbia University's literary magazine.

Berrigan co-wrote some books with other writers and poets, such as Tom Veitch, Ron Padgett , Joe Brainard , Anselm Hollo , Anne Waldman and Tom Clark , the painter George Schneeman .

Works

  • The Sonnets . Lorenz & Ellen Gude, New York 1964; New editions: Grove, New York 1966; United Artists, New York 1982; Improved edition: Penguin Books, New York 2000
    • German: Guillaume Apollinaire is dead. Poems, prose, collaborations. March, Frankfurt 1970
    • Long poem Tambourine Life. (1965/66), German in the anthology: Silverscreen. New American Poetry , ed. RD Brinkmann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1969 & Gutenberg Book Guild 1970
  • with Ron Padgett & Joe Brainard: Bean Spasms. Kulchur Press, New York 1967
  • Many happy returns . (Poems) Angel Hair, New York 1967; New edition: Corinth Books, New York 1969
  • with Ron Padgett: NOH . Lines Press 1969
  • In the Early Morning Rain . Cape Goliard, London 1970
  • Train ride . Vehicle Editions, New York 1971
  • with Anne Waldman: Memorial Day . Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, New York 1971
  • So Going around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 . Blue Wind Press, Berkeley 1980
  • In a blue river . Little Light Books, 1981
  • The Morning Line . Am Here Books / Immediate Editions. 1982
  • A Certain Slant of Sunlight . O Books, Oakland, Cal. 1988
  • Alice Notley, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan Eds .: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan . University of California Press, Berkeley, Cal., 2005.
in magazines

Berrigan published in Poetry and The Paris Review , but mostly in a great many small literary magazines by poets. A complete list would be much longer, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's March issue (1970) refers to Aram Saroyan's Lines , Ed Sanders Fuck You , Peter Schjeldahl's Mother , Anne Waldman's Angel Hair (with Lewis Warsh) and The World , Larry Fagin's Adventures in Poetry .

C Press

  • Tom Veitch: Literary Days 1964
  • Ron Padgett: In Advance of the Broken Arm . 1964; 1965
  • Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard: Some Things . 1964
  • Ron Padgett: Two Stories for Andy Warhol . 1965
  • Ted Berrigan, Dick Gallup: Hinges: Poems 1965
  • Ted Berrigan, Joseph Ceravolo: Fits of Dawn . 1965
  • Kenward Elmslie: Power Plant Poems 1967
  • Michael Brownstein: Behind the Wheel
  • Steve Carey: The Lily of St. Mark's . 1978

literature

Festschrift
  • Anne Waldman (Ed.): Nice to See You: Hommage to Ted Berrigan . Coffee House Press, Minnesota, Minn., 1991
Interviews
  • Stephen Ratcliffe, Leslie Scalapino: Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan . Avenue B / O Books, Bolinas, Cal./ Oakland, Cal., 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The subject of his master's thesis was George Bernard Shaw , Berrigan apparently did not meet the examination requirements.
  2. ↑ GranaryBooks site (English)
  3. ↑ Jed Birmingham: C Press Archive (English)
  4. ↑ from this a German selection in 1. Acid. New American scene. Ed. Brinkmann, Rygulla. March, Frankfurt 1969 a. ö. With poems: Carol's dream; A dog; An interview with John Cage & (together with Padgett :) A personal report about Tulsa Oklahoma. 2. Bilingual in: March Texts 1. Area, Erftstadt 2004, p. 264ff .: Personal poem No. 3; Goodbye (to Dick Gallup); For you (for James Schuyler)
  5. ↑ A comprehensive listing of his books: Publications by Ted Berrigan Based on : Anne Waldman: Ted Berrigan's Published Work: A Checklist . In: Anne Waldman (Ed.): Nice to See You . Coffee House Press, Minnesota, Minn., 1991, pp. 242-4.
personal data
SURNAME Berrigan, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berrigan, Edmund Joseph Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1983