About Ted Berrigan
Ted Berrigan was an active american poet in the poetry scene in Chicago for several years, then moved to New York City, where he edited various magazines and books. The poet Frank O'Hara called Berrigan's most significant publication, The Sonnets, “a fact of modern poetry.” A telling reflection on the era that produced it, The Sonnets beautifully weaves together traditional elements of the Shakespearean sonnet form with the disjunctive structure and cadence of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Berrigan’s own literary innovations and personal experiences. The product is a composition, in the words of Berrigan’s editor and second wife Alice Notley, “[that is] musical, sexy, and funny. These are the best and famous poems of the author.Browse all poems and texts published on Ted Berrigan
