Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)

A selective list of online literary criticism for American poet Ted Berrigan, favoring signed scholarly articles and books, peer-reviewed sources, sources supervised by editors, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites.

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introduction & literary criticism

An extended, introductory article on Ted Berrigan's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation

Very short review of The Sonnets in the Boulder Weekly, 2000

"Ted Berrigan." An introduction to Berrigan. Also "A Brief Guide to Confessional Poetry." Academy of American Poets.

Palattella, John. "La Vie de Bohème." An extended review of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (Univ. of Calif. Press). "Packed with hundreds of poems long out of print as well as dozens more previously unpublished in books or magazines, The Collected Poems is not simply a book but a portable archive, one that creates a little space between the poet's career and stories about his life." The Nation, 1/4/06

Phillips, Rodney. On the New York School poets from the Literary Encyclopedia, 20 December 2004

Rifkin, Libbie. Publisher's blurb for Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2000). "Making the controversial claim that anti-Establishment poets were at least as "careerist" as their mainstream peers, Libbie Rifkin shows how the nature of these poets' ambition actually defined postwar avant-garde identity." A review from Jacket Magazine, 18 (Aug. 2002) by Linda Russo. Another review (first page only) from Contemporary Literature, 43, 3 (Autumn 2002), by Susan Vanderborg

Ted Berrigan page at the Electronic Poetry Center contains some of Berrigan's original writing and collaborations

Description of the Ted Berrigan papers in the Univ. of Connecticut special collection

A list of Ted Berrigan's work, from 1934-1983, from a faculty member at the Univ. of South Carolina

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