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Ted Berrigan (1934–1983)

Autor von The Sonnets

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Ted Berrigan, Ted Berrigan, poetic and inspirational genius of the second generation of the New York School Poets, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 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 mehr anzeigen Tulsa (on the GI Bill). His most famous work was entitled "The Sonnets". During the 1960s 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 Michigan at Ann Arbor, Yale, State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Essex (England), Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago), and the Naropa Institute. In the mid-1970s he returned to the Lower East Side, teaching at Stevens Institute of Technology and the City College of New York, giving poetry readings everywhere, and influencing a new generation of poets. His many books include the major sequence "The Sonnets", a central collection "So Going Around Cities", several collaborative books with other poets, long poems, a novel, and interviews. In a curriculum vitae from 1982, he described himself as "modestly venerable, large, traditional in appearance. Resemble Apollinaire (w/beard) or bear disguised as GBS? Formidable, affable, durable?" He died on July 4, 1983. weniger anzeigen

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For many years, everyone told me to read Berrigan, that I'd love him. And I have now, several times. And guess what? I don't love him. Oh, I understand the appeal. It's just that I think there are many other poets in a similar vein who are simply better and more interesting. In a way, he kind of reminds me of another "hip," popular/populist poet and writer -- Brautigan. I do think Berrigan's better, but it's that whole "famous for being famous" thing, for me, as opposed to other New York School poets like Frank O'Hara and Anne Waldman, both of whom I enjoy and appreciate (and respect). Hell, I think his wife was better than he was? (Was he the American Ted Hughes?) I realize I'm probably in the minority and that's ok. I have friends in that NY scene, and I appreciate them, but as for me, I'll stick with Bukowski, Ferlinghetti and the West Coast literary scene... Basically, not recommended. Read Frank O'Hara instead.… (mehr)
 
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scottcholstad | Feb 28, 2020 |
Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett’s Bean Spasms is 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 Spasms is 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 Spasms is a classic document of the New York School.… (mehr)
 
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petervanbeveren | Dec 30, 2018 |
Frontispiece sketch of Berrigan by Joe Brainard. Gooood.I've tried to understand the sonnets - not easy. I think he's saying - make what you can of them
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jon1lambert | 1 weitere Rezension | May 18, 2011 |
Macho incoherence of the best kind.
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