A selective bibliography of 19 active links for Ted Berrigan, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Marisa Januzzi. "Kerouac and Berrigan and the Poetics of Providence," considers Berrigan as an appropriator and as hailing from Providence. Poetry and New Materialities [ejournal]
Notley, Alice. "A certain slant of sunlight." American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr 1999
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 "Packed with hundreds of poems long out of print as well as dozens more previously unpublished in books or magazines, The Collected Poems is not simply a book but a portable archive, one that creates a little space between the poet's career and stories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. Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s. Context for Berrigan's poetry. Criticism, Fall, 1998
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, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), by Susan Vanderborg
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Gathered, not made: A brief history of appropriative writing." In American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr 1999
Warren, Nancy. "The great Brainard," about an exhibition at the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum, of work by Joe Brainard, frequent collaborator with Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery and Anne Waldman, in The Advocate, April 24, 2001. Other articles about this exhibition in ArtForum by Brad Gooch; article in Art in America by Edmund White
Warsh, Lewis. An essay by Lewis Warsh recounts his experiences publishing Berrigan from 1966 to 1983. From "Introduction" to Aaron Fischer's Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist, Granary Books (essay now blocked from http://www.granarybooks.com/books/fischer/fischer2b.html)
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
A brief introduction to Ted Berrigan from the Academy of American Poets
University of California Press web page for The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. Edited by Alice Notley, with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan. Introduction and Notes by Alice Notley. Limited preview available using Google Book Search
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
A review of Aaron Fischer's Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist: Featuring Collaborations between Ted Berrigan and George Schneeman. Reviewed in AB Bookman, Jan. 1999 (removed)
Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL, "Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The New York Public Library," featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by Berrigan and other poets and artists of the period (removed)
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period (removed)
Brief note on some Ted Berrigan papers held at the Syracuse University Library (removed)
On collecting books by the New York School of poets, from AB Bookman's Weekly, Jan. 25, 1999 (removed)
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