Ted Berrigan Reading at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 4 December 1970

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Ted Berrigan Reading at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 4 December 1970
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Berrigan, Ted
Dates:
1934-1983
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http://viaf.org/viaf/64027570
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"Author", "Performer"
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Poet and editor Ted Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island on November 15, 1934. He studied briefly at Providence College until 1954 when he joined the US army, which he served three years, an eighteen months of which were spent in the Korean War. Berrigan returned to the US and completed a Bachelor’s degree in English literature at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1595. It was there that he met Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard. Berrigan completed his MA in 1962, and soon after, with a number of friends from Tulsa, went north to the Lower East Side of New York City. By 1963, Berrigan had established C: A Journal of Poetry, which published not only the work of his friends, but the poetry of the older generation of New York poets and artists like Andy Warhol. In 1964, Berrigan published his most accomplished collection of poems, The Sonnets (Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964). Berrigan also taught at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project at its conception by Paul Blackburn, helping to shape the project and its programmes in its early days. He also lectured at the State University of Michigan, University of Iowa, Yale University, the University of Michigan, and at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. A selection of his publications include A Lily for My Love (Self published, 1959), In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard Press, 1970), Red Wagon (Yellow Press, 1976), Galileo; or Finksville a play (1964) and Bean Spasms (Kulchur Press, 1967) written with Ron Padgett. Ted Berrigan died on July 4, 1983. The most comprehensive collection of his poetry can be found in So Going Around Cities: New and Selected Poems 1958-1979 (Blue Wind Press, 1980).

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Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
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http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976
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"Series organizer", "Presenter"

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George Bowering 00:00:00 Welcome to at last the second reading in the series, for this year. As you probably know, the series that we have, it might be loosely called a kind of an avant-garde series, and in the, this is our fifth year, and this is the first time we've ever had anybody from the New York School --it's not going to be the last time, we're going to have Kenneth Koch in the spring, and we're looking for Tom Clarke next fall. Berrigan is I guess now, one of the, say the halfback, I supposed, or quarterback of the New York School. Many of you have probably seen...[laughter] yeah, linebacker! When you ask when you're a little thin... And most of you have probably seen the propaganda sheet that's been around, downstairs and so on, and so you've heard the words that some of his confreres have said about him. I'd just like to add a little bit, in addition to those earlier books such as The Sonnets, and Bean Spasms, there's a couple of new books that have just appeared, one's called In the Early Morning Rain, which will be available here because it's a Cape Goliard book, and it's distributed in Canada by one of the big Toronto publishers, and another one with a Kraut title that I can't read that's bilingual, half-German and half-English that I'm sure we'll hear some from.... Ted Berrigan 00:01:31 The title's [unintelligible] Guillaume Apollinaire ist ... George Bowering 00:01:34 Oh I see, yeah right. Ted Berrigan 00:01:35 However I don't have any available, only in Berlin . George Bowering 00:01:38 Right, so if you happen to be in Berlin, snap up a copy of Guillaume Apollinaire ist tot und Anders. So I'd like to mention that Ted Berrigan is going to read one set, and then he wants to stop for a very short intermission, say like a five-minute intermission, and then haul you back in again and do a second set. So ladies and gentlemen, etcetera, Ted Berrigan. Audience 00:02:05 Applause. Unknown 00:02:07 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Ted Berrigan 00:02:08 In the first set I'm going to read mostly poems I've written over the last four or five years. Actually, longer than that, some going back to 1962, or '61. I don't know how long this set'll be. It'll, should be less than a half-hour. In the second set I'll read poems I've written over the last year or two. However I want to start with a poem that I wrote about two years ago. It's called "Heroin" I read this in high schools in Ann Arbor which I went to read in a program called Poetry Ann Arbor, and I wanted, I read the title and then I wanted to, I read the title and then I wanted to, I found it real funny because it was called "Heroin," and I wanted to disclaim that it was a pro-heroin poem. So I said, this poem is not a pro-heroin poem.Then I realized there wasn't an anti-heroin poem either. So I ended them, it was just sort of an on-heroin poem. [Audience laughter]. All my poems are pretty much alike, and this is fairly typical of what you'll be hearing the rest of the evening. Ted Berrigan 00:03:19 Reads "Heroin". Ted Berrigan 00:04:22 This poem is called "Frank O'Hara's Question". Frank O'Hara is a poet from New York , who's dead, he died when he was forty years old a couple of years ago in an automobile accident. The title doesn't have too much to do with the poem, except that it sort of states something that Frank O'Hara evidently had to say, and so it says something that I have to say too in my own way, not that I have to say it the same way that Frank did. Ted Berrigan 00:04:56 Reads "Frank O’Hara’s Question". Ted Berrigan 00:05:42 This is a poem I wrote in 1962. It's called "Words for Love". It's a bit rhetorical, but it's the best I could do in 1962, and I still like it a lot, albeit I wonder at some of it. "Words for Love". It was written, actually, at a very difficult time in my life, and I guess I felt the need to make some sort of statement. Ted Berrigan 00:06:09 Reads "Words for Love". Ted Berrigan 00:08:07 Reads ["I wake up 11:30, back aching"]. Ted Berrigan 00:09:23 Reads “Personal Poem #7. Ted Berrigan 00:10:23 Reads “Personal Poem”. Audience 00:11:08 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:11:10 Thank you. Charlie Stanton liked that one too. [Audience laughter]. This is the last one of those kind of poems [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:11:21 Reads “Personal Poem #9”. Ted Berrigan 00:12:32 I've always liked that poem. [Laughter]. All of those are written around 1962, 61 and 62. I want to skip up to around 1967. I wrote this poem called "Things to do in New York City". I was leaving New York, and this poem, like many of my poems, was written for a specific occasion. It was for someone's birthday. And the poem, it's just my poem, it's not about the other person's birthday, it's just a present for him on his birthday. Ted Berrigan 00:13:24 Reads "Things to do in New York City". Ted Berrigan 00:14:20 This poem is called "Ten Things I do Every Day," which is...it's true, as a matter of fact, in a way. In a manner of speaking. But it's not true that it's ten things. Alas. But that was just the title, like the ten greatest movies of the year. Ted Berrigan 00:14:40 Reads "Ten Things I do Every Day". Audience 00:15:16 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:15:21 That's what you do in New York. [Audience laughter]. I'll read this poem called "Resolution". Ted Berrigan 00:15:35 Reads "Resolution”. Ted Berrigan 00:15:58 I don't know what I'll do about it if you do, but...something. All those dramatic poems. Ted Berrigan 00:16:06 Reads “Sonnet XXXVII”. Ted Berrigan 00:17:08 I want to move around a little and not do exactly what I said. This is a poem I wrote last summer in London , it's dedicated to the poet Tom Raworth and his wife. They lived in Colchester , which is an hour or two train-ride from London, and I was supposed to go down and see them, and I didn't go. And by way of apologies, I wrote this poem to Tom and to his wife, Val. Ted Berrigan 00:17:33 Reads "Apologies to Val and Tom". Ted Berrigan 00:19:05 I'll read this one for George Bowering's old lady, [audience laughter] Mrs. Angela Bowering. It's called "Things to do on Speed". [Audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:19:19 Reads "Things to do on Speed" [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:20:58 [Laughter] I forgot about that one. Audience 00:21:01 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:21:03 Resumes reading "Things to do on Speed". Ted Berrigan 00:22:21 I wrote that one courtesy of The New York Times . Okay, one more this set. This is called, "Things to do in Providence". [Audience laughter]. Which is, Providence , Rhode Island , or whatever else you can make of it. Ted Berrigan 00:22:50 Reads "Things to do in Providence". Audience 00:26:23 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:26:29 Resumes reading "Things to do in Providence". Audience 00:27:46 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:27:52 [Unintelligible]. Unknown 00:27:55 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. George Bowering 00:27:55 Here he is again, terrible Ted Berrigan. Ted Berrigan 00:28:01 All the poems I'm going to read in this set are from my book, In the Early Morning Rain. The title of this book I got from Gordon Lightfoot , the Canadian folk singer-songwriter, and I didn't know, I made, I decided to use that title before Bobby Dylan's album Self-Portrait came out, so I didn't know that Bobby was going to record this song. I would have used it anyway, I'm sure. But, I mean if Dylan can steal it, I can steal it. And this book is a collection of poems of mine from over the last ten years, and I'm just going to read around in it. I wrote a lot of different kind of poems. I don't very often try for...I mean, I just take my poems where they come. This poem is called "Hello". Ted Berrigan 00:28:51 Reads "Hello" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:29:06 Now I'm going to read two or three poems that are from a section of this book called "Life of a Man". "Life of a Man" is a book of poems in Italian by an Italian poet, a very great Italian poet who died not too long ago called Giuseppe Ungaretti . There's a little story behind these. A lady poet named Barbara Guest once asked my friend Ron Patchett and I, would we translate some of Ungaretti's poems, because Ungaretti was coming to America . And she thought it would be nice if we would translate them as a sort of homage to him. And so I told her, I said, “Barbara, but we don't understand Italian,” and she said, “Oh, I'm sure you can do it, you two are marvelous”. And she said, “Just get a dictionary, and you can look up the words”. So I looked at Ron and he looked at me, and we said, yeah, we can translate 'em, sure, but we don't want to get any dictionaries. So we just translated 'em without any dictionaries. [Audience laughter]. And we never showed them to Ungaretti but we showed them to Barbara Guest and she had the horrors. The first one is called "Matinee". Ted Berrigan 00:30:16 Reads "Matinee" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:26 The next one is called "December" [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:30 Reads "December" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:38 And this one is called "The Reply to the Fragile." Ted Berrigan 00:30:42 Reads "The Reply to the Fragile" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:30:53 That one's a little, that's rated X. [Audience laughter]. And this is the last one, it's called “Corporal Pellegrini”. If any of you know Italian, you can understand where all these words came from [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:31:09 Reads "Corporal Pellegrini" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:31:38 I think Ungaretti would've liked them. [Audience laughter]. He probably would have retranslated them and gotten some new ones. This next work is a translation too and it's a translation I did from French, which I understand some. And so this time I only had to leave certain words. This time I translated a lot of it accurately. But it's called "Life among the woods". And it's a translation of a page from a grammar book, some kind of book written in the French language. After I'd gotten this much done I decided it was over. Anyway, it's called "Life Among the Woods". Ted Berrigan 00:32:20 Reads "Life Among the Woods" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:34:30.58 Pretty interesting family. This is a poem called "In Four Parts." Ted Berrigan 00:34:40.14 Reads "In Four Parts" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:35:22 That was four sentences from the New York Times. They had this secret continuity. [Laughter]. This is a poem called "March 17th, 1970". Ted Berrigan 00:35:35 Reads "March 17th, 1970" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:36:03 And you'd better believe it. Only not right now, right then. I don't know if I can subject you to this poem. I guess I will anyway. This is called "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968". Ted Berrigan 00:36:28 Reads "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:38:02 You people that are laughing are getting it. Ted Berrigan 00:38:04 Resumes reading "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968" from In the Early Morning Rain. Audience 00:38:14 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:38:17 This is a poem called "Thirty". Ted Berrigan 00:38:18 Reads "Thirty" from In the Early Morning Rain Ted Berrigan 00:38:24 That's for all of you guys that did thirty. This poem is called "Things to do in Anne's Room". Ted Berrigan 00:38:34 Reads "Things to do in Anne's Room" from In the Early Morning Rain Ted Berrigan 00:39:42 This is called "The Great Genius". Ted Berrigan 00:39:45 Reads "The Great Genius" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:39:56 This is called "Anti-War Poem". It's another New Year's poem, actually. Ted Berrigan 00:40:03 Reads "Anti-War Poem" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:40:41 And this poem is called "Tough Brown Coat". Ted Berrigan 00:40:43 Reads "Tough Brown Coat" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:04 This poem is called "Babe Rainbow". Ted Berrigan 00:41:08 Reads "Babe Rainbow" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:25 And this is called "In My Room". Ted Berrigan 00:41:30 Reads "In My Room" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:54 This is called "Ann Arbor Elegy". It was written for a girl who was killed in an automobile accident. September 27th, 1969. The funny thing about this poem is it was written before she was killed. And when I looked at it after she was dead, I saw that I didn't have to write an elegy for her, that somehow I'd written one already. Ted Berrigan 00:42:17 Reads "Ann Arbor Elegy - For Franny Winston" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:43:13 And this is a sort of berserk work, which I wrote called "Wake Up," which is about all it says, really. Ted Berrigan 00:43:23 Reads "Wake up" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:44:18 I have another poem which I'd like to read but I won't, but it's a series of aphorisms from the works of Francis Picabia , the French poet and painter. And this friend Jim Carroll and I translated these from French. I'll read you my favourite one, in any case, which Jim Carroll translated. It says, "Spinoza is the one who threw a pass to move Spinoza." I really...in this book I put some poems by some of my friends so I wouldn't have to read all my works. Though when I read I never read theirs, I notice. This poem is called "In Bed". Ted Berrigan 00:44:56 Reads "In Bed" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:45:12 That's an example of saying nothing. [Audience laughter]. This poem is called "Easy Living". It's dedicated to a boy named David Henderson, a poet who was a friend of mine, whom I once took a trip to Pittsburgh with. Had a very nice time. Ted Berrigan 00:45:33 Reads "Easy Living" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:46:25 This is a poem I wrote, it's called "Like Poem". A friend of mine wrote a love poem to this girl, and I thought I should do that too. But I only wanted to write a like poem to her, because I don't want to have any obligations. [Audience laughter]. No, that isn't the reason why, but that's what came out. This is called "Like Poem," it's to Joan Fagan, who's the wife of my friend Larry Fagan , the poet. Ted Berrigan 00:46:50 Reads "Like Poem" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:47:06 This poem is called "Ann Arbor Song". This poem I actually tried to write a poem out of a very corny feeling that I'd had, which nevertheless is very genuine. It starts at a poetry reading in Ann Arbor, but it's really about being in Ann Arbor and realizing I was leaving soon, and thinking about all the things that wouldn't happen to me again, because this trip was going to be over. Even though, I'm--it's not all that sentimental, I mean I knew I might go to Ann Arbor again and all that, it was just that this particular trip was going to be over. I also wrote it with the idea in mind of reading it at a poetry reading too. "Ann Arbor Song". Ted Berrigan 00:47:45 Reads "Ann Arbor Song" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:49:22 I'm going to read two more. First one's called "Peace". Ted Berrigan 00:49:29 Reads "Peace" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:50:37 Alright, and this is the last poem. I hate to end heavy, but there's no place to read this poem but at the end. This poem is called "People Who Died". It's just a list. "People Who Died". Ted Berrigan 00:50:55 Reads "People Who Died" from In the Early Morning Rain. Audience 00:52:48 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:52:53 Not the most, uh...[laughter]. END 00:52:59
Notes:
Ted Berrigan reads from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970), The Sonnets (Grove Press, 1964), Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969) and poems later collected in So Going Around Cities (Berkley, 1980) as well as a few unknown poems. (Rachel has indexed individual poems) 00:00- George Bowering introduces Ted Berrigan. [INDEX: second reading in the series in 1970, series called ‘avant-garde series’, fifth year, first reader from the ‘New York School’, Kenneth Coke, Tom Clarke, quarterback of the school, ‘propaganda’ (advertisement) paper of reading, The Sonnets (1967), Bean Spasms (Kulchur Press, 1967, In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970), Cape Goliard, distributed by big Toronto publisher, ‘Kraut’ title, half German, half English, Guillaume Apollinaire ist tot und Anders (sp?), Berlin.] 02:08- Ted Berrigan introduces “Heroin”. [INDEX: poems read from last 4-5 years, in first set some read from 1961-62, in second set poems read from year or two before, poem read in high schools in Ann Arbour, program called Poetry Ann Arbour, not a pro-heroin poem, not anti-heroin poem either, ‘on-heroin poem’; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 03:19- Reads “Heroin”. [INDEX: list, heroin, photograph, Kerouac, Anne, heart, light, streets.] 04:22- Introduces “Frank O’Hara’s Question”. [INDEX: O’Hara: dead poet from new York, car accident, significance of title; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 04:56- Reads “Frank O’Hara’s Question”. [INDEX: Frank O'Hara, list, sky, letter, Isaac Dennison, high, happy, long poem, art, guard, mess, message.] 05:42- Introduces “Words for Love”. [INDEX: written in 1962, rhetorical; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969).] 06:09- Reads “Words for Love”. [INDEX: winter, snow, read, poetry, weakness, obsession, Jackson Pollock, Rilke, Benedict Arnold, psyche, high, drugs, poems, list, words, time, lady of the lake, God, heart] 08:07- Reads first line “I wake up at 11:30, back aching...”. [INDEX: confessional, New York, Pat, Ron, birthday, Pepsi, high, class, book, Juan Gris, poems, ballad, sonnet, Shakespeare, Auden, Spenser, Stevens, Pound, Frank O'Hara, Jan, Helen, Babe, David, ego, self, wonder, toilet paper; poem not indicated on Howard Fink Poem List.] 09:23- Reads “Personal Poem #7”. [INDEX: confessional, New York, drugs, sex, John Ashbery, food, write, stealing; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969); poems not indicated on Howard Fink Poem List.] 10:23- Reads “Personal Poem #8”. [INDEX: confessional, diary, journal, love, Ray Joss, New York, court, wife, police, John Stanton; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969); poems not indicated on Howard Fink Poem List.] 11:07- Introduces first line “Personal Poem #9”. [INDEX: Charlie Stanton; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969); poems not indicated on Howard Fink Poem List.] 11:21- Reads first line “Personal Poem #9”. [INDEX: confessional, journal, diary, Brooklyn, New York, Pepsi, food, memory, book.] 12:32- Explains last selection of poems, introduces “Things to do in New York City”. [INDEX: selection written in 1961-2, “Things to do in New York City” written around 1967, leaving New York, written for a birthday present.] 13:24- Reads “Things to do in New York City”. [INDEX: confessional, occasional poem, city, New York, By the Waters of Manhattan, drugs, cigarette, read, break, girls, love, death, birth, friends, departure; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969).] 14:20- Introduces “Ten Things I do Every Day”. [INDEX: title; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969).] 14:40- Reads “Ten Things I do Every Day”. [INDEX: New York, waking, smoking, pot, love, eating, food, cat, sound, song, streets, read, children, friends, Pepsi.] 15:21- Introduces “Resolution”. [INDEX: New York City; from Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969).] 15:35- Reads “Resolution”. [INDEX: city, New York, snow, winter, New Year's, driving] 15:58- Introduces “Sonnet XXXVII”. [INDEX: from The Sonnets (Grove Press, 1964).] 16:06- Reads “Sonnet XXXVII”. [INDEX: night, sleep, Guillaume Apollinaire, poem, dream, crying, song, library, tear, light] 17:08- Introduces “Apologies to Val and Tom”. [INDEX: written last summer in London, dedicated to poet Tom Raworth and his wife, Colchester, London, apology; from unknown source.] 17:33- Reads “Apologies to Val and Tom”. [INDEX: place, London, apology, night, city, memory, remembrance, New York, friend, poem, visit.] 19:05- Introduces “Things to do on Speed”. [INDEX: for Angela Bowering, George Bowering; from the section “How We Live in the Jungle 1969-1970 in So Going Around Cities (Berkley, 1980).] 19:19- Reads “Things to do on Speed”. [INDEX: list, typewriter, mind, writing, book, desk, Pepsi, sleep, dream, paper, song, sickness, drugs, imperative, talking, New York, city, work, hallucination, high, sex, heroin, speed] 22:21- Explains “Things to do on Speed” and introduces “Things to do in Providence. [INDEX: New York Times, Providence, Rhode Island.] 22:50- Reads “Things to do in Providence”. [INDEX: confessional, place, Providence, Rhode Island, city, drugs, imperative, list, food, TV, war, Texas, movie, Western, tear, cowboy, New York, drunk, children, phone, talk, family, mother, birth, work, cigarette, hippie, teenager, home, car, death, grandmother, heart, stranger, sleep; from the section “Buffalo Days: Summer 1970 in So Going Around Cities (Berkley, 1980).] 27:55- After a break (cut in recording), George Bowering introduces Ted Berrigan again. 28:01- Ted Berrigan introduces “Hello”. [INDEX: poems read from In the Early Morning Rain, title from Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian Folk singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait Album, stealing titles, collection from last ten years; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 28:51- Reads “Hello”. [INDEX: hello, etymology, health.] 29:06- Introduces section of book, “Life of a Man”, and poem “Matinee”. [INDEX: Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, poet Barbara Guest, Ron Patchett, translate Ungaretti’s poems, translation without dictionary; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 30:16- Reads “Matinee”. [INDEX: translation, morning.] 30:26- Reads “December” [INDEX: translation, farewell, mother, brother, sister, sex, heart; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 30:38- Reads “Reply to the Fragile”. [INDEX: translation, bite, pain, sex, breasts; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 30:53- Introduces “Corporal Pellegrini”. [INDEX: Italian; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 31:09- Reads “Corporal Pellegrini”. [INDEX: translation, corporal, sex, horse, soldier, death.] 31:38- Introduces “Life Among the Woods”. [INDEX: Ungaretti, retranslated to make new poems, translation from French, from grammar book; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 32:20- Reads “Life Among the Woods”. [INDEX: translation, Paris, boat, woods, family, children, rich, house, garden, cooking, list.] 34:30- Reads “In Four Parts”. [INDEX: beach, Israel, Mayor Frank X. Graves, Allen Ginsberg, marijuana, news, William Carlos Williams, poet, American, New York Times; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 35:22- Explains “In Four Parts”, introduces “March 17th, 1970”. [INDEX: sentences from the New York Times, secret continuity.] 35:35- Reads “March 17th, 1970”. [INDEX: love, like, phone, wire, listening, kill.] 36:03- Introduces “The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968”. 36:28- Reads “The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968”. [INDEX: book, list, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Chicago Review, dictionary, Aristotle, language, Frank O'Hara, Ralph Conners, zodiac, consciousness, names, rank, sonnet; from In the Early Mornin Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 38:13- Introduces “30”. [INDEX: from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 38:18- Reads “30”. 38:34- Introduces “Things to do in Anne’s Room”. 38:34- Reads “Things to do in Anne’s Room”. [INDEX: room, house, place, imperative, list, sex, couple, book, Moby Dick, Planet of the Apes, clothes, bed, alone, death; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 39:42- Reads “The Great Genius”. [INDEX: man, crazy; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 39:56- Introduces “Anti-War Poem”. [INDEX: New Year’s poem; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970) 40:03- Reads “Anti-War Poem”. [INDEX: peace, war, resolution, New Year's Eve, 1968, Iowa City, city, memory, remembrance, death.] 40:41- Reads “Tough Brown Coat”. [INDEX: coat, description, clothes, death; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 41:04- Reads “Babe Rainbow”. [INDEX: smoke, cigarette, burn, bed, read; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970) 41:25- Reads “In My Room”. [INDEX: place, house, room, list, Thanksgiving.] 42:17- Introduces “Ann Arbor Elegy”. [INDEX: girl killed in automobile accident on September 27, 1969, written before her accident; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 42:17- Reads “Ann Arbor Elegy”. [INDEX: for Franny Winston, party, night, drinking, alcohol, high, girl, place, Ann Arbor, death, morning, sky, food, news.] 43:13- Reads “Wake Up”. [INDEX: morning, wake, bed, girl, work, Jim Dine, day, list, imperative; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 44:15- Introduces “In Bed”. [INDEX: series of aphorisms, Francis Picabia French poet and painter, Jim Carroll, translation from French, placing other poet’s work in his books; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 44:56- Reads “In Bed”. [INDEX: girl, bed, sex.] 45:12- Introduces “Easy Living”. [INDEX: dedicated to boy named David Henderson, Pittsburgh; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 45:33- Reads “Easy Living”. [INDEX: travel, Africa, time, rain, heat, weather, David Henderson, Pittsburgh.] 46:25- Introduces “Like Poem”. [INDEX: friend wrote love poem, to Joan Fagan, wife of poet Larry Fagan; in the section “In the Wheel: Winter 1969” in So Going Around Cities (Berkley, 1980).] 46:50- Reads “Like Poem”. [INDEX: couple, drugs, Joan Fagan, like.] 47:06- Introduces “Ann Arbor Song”. [INDEX: feeling, poetry reading in Ann Arbor, trip.] 47:45- Reads “Ann Arbor Song”. [INDEX: place, Ann Arbor, poetry, poetry reading, poem, boredom, Jack, Anne, high, drugs, friends, time, memory, remembrance.] 49:22- Reads “Peace”. [INDEX: heart, day, east, west, peace, couple, love, woman; unknown source.] 50:53- Introduces “People Who Died”. [INDEX: heavy poem, end of reading, list; from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970).] 50:55- Reads “People Who Died”. [INDEX: death, list, dates, friends, accidents, cancer, suicide, Neal Cassidy, Frank O'Hara, Ann Kepler, Franny Winston, Jack Kerouac.] 52:59.60- END OF RECORDING. Poems with Time Stamps and Duration Time Duration (mins.) “Heroin” 00:03:19 01:02 “Frank O’Hara’s Question” 00:04:56 00:44 “Words For Love” 00:06:09 01:57 [“I wake up 11:30, back aching”] 00:08:07 01:13 “Personal Poem #7 00:09:23 00:58 “Personal Poem” (#8?) 00:10:23 00:42 “Personal Poem #9 00:11:21 01:08 “Things To Do in New York City” 00:13:24 00:55 “Ten Things I Do Every Day” 00:14:40 00:35 “Resolution” 00:15:35 00:17 “Sonnet XXXVII” 00:16:06 01:01 “Apologies to Val And Tom” 00:17:33 01:31 “Things To Do On Speed” 00:19:19 02:58 “Things To Do In Providence” 00:22:50 04:55 “Hello” 00:28:51 00:15 “Matinee” 00:30:16 00:09 “December” 00:30:30 00:07 “Reply to the Fragile” 00:30:42 00:10 “Corporal Pelegrini” 00:31:09 00:28 “Life Among the Woods” 00:32:20 02:09 “In Four Parts” 00:34:40 00:40 “March 17, 1970” 00:35:35 00:28 “The Ten Greatest Books of the Year – 1968” 00:36:28 01:45 “Thirty” 00:38:18 00:06 “Things To Do In Anne’s Room” 00:38:34 01:09 “The Great Genius” 00:39:45 00:10 “Anti-War Poem” 00:40:03 00:37 “Tough Brown Coat” 00:40:43 00:20 “Babe Rainbow” 00:41:08 00:16 “In My Room” 00:41:30 00:23 “Ann Arbor Elegy” 00:42:17 00:57 “Wake Up” 00:43:23 00:56 “In Bed” 00:44:56 00:15 “Easy Living” 00:45:33 00:50 “Like Poem” 00:46:50 00:16 “Ann Arbor Song” 00:47:45 01:46 “Peace” 00:49:29 01:07 “People Who Died” 00:50:55 01:51 Howard Fink List of Poems: “Ted Berrigan” Introduction by George Bowering Recorded December 4, 1970 Note: “Personal Poems” do not appear on this list, and an extra first line in between “Wake Up” and “In Bed” reads “Spinoza is the one who threw a pass...”. pg. 66
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CONTENT

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ted_berrigan_i086-11-004.mp3 George Bowering 00:00:00 Welcome to at last the second reading in the series, for this year. As you probably know, the series that we have, it might be loosely called a kind of an avant-garde series, and in the, this is our fifth year, and this is the first time we've ever had anybody from the New York School --it's not going to be the last time, we're going to have Kenneth Koch in the spring, and we're looking for Tom Clarke next fall. Berrigan is I guess now, one of the, say the halfback, I supposed, or quarterback of the New York School. Many of you have probably seen...[laughter] yeah, linebacker! When you ask when you're a little thin... And most of you have probably seen the propaganda sheet that's been around, downstairs and so on, and so you've heard the words that some of his confreres have said about him. I'd just like to add a little bit, in addition to those earlier books such as The Sonnets, and Bean Spasms, there's a couple of new books that have just appeared, one's called In the Early Morning Rain, which will be available here because it's a Cape Goliard book, and it's distributed in Canada by one of the big Toronto publishers, and another one with a Kraut title that I can't read that's bilingual, half-German and half-English that I'm sure we'll hear some from.... Ted Berrigan 00:01:31 The title's [unintelligible] Guillaume Apollinaire ist ... George Bowering 00:01:34 Oh I see, yeah right. Ted Berrigan 00:01:35 However I don't have any available, only in Berlin . George Bowering 00:01:38 Right, so if you happen to be in Berlin, snap up a copy of Guillaume Apollinaire ist tot und Anders. So I'd like to mention that Ted Berrigan is going to read one set, and then he wants to stop for a very short intermission, say like a five-minute intermission, and then haul you back in again and do a second set. So ladies and gentlemen, etcetera, Ted Berrigan. Audience 00:02:05 Applause. Unknown 00:02:07 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. Ted Berrigan 00:02:08 In the first set I'm going to read mostly poems I've written over the last four or five years. Actually, longer than that, some going back to 1962, or '61. I don't know how long this set'll be. It'll, should be less than a half-hour. In the second set I'll read poems I've written over the last year or two. However I want to start with a poem that I wrote about two years ago. It's called "Heroin" I read this in high schools in Ann Arbor which I went to read in a program called Poetry Ann Arbor, and I wanted, I read the title and then I wanted to, I read the title and then I wanted to, I found it real funny because it was called "Heroin," and I wanted to disclaim that it was a pro-heroin poem. So I said, this poem is not a pro-heroin poem.Then I realized there wasn't an anti-heroin poem either. So I ended them, it was just sort of an on-heroin poem. [Audience laughter]. All my poems are pretty much alike, and this is fairly typical of what you'll be hearing the rest of the evening. Ted Berrigan 00:03:19 Reads "Heroin". Ted Berrigan 00:04:22 This poem is called "Frank O'Hara's Question". Frank O'Hara is a poet from New York , who's dead, he died when he was forty years old a couple of years ago in an automobile accident. The title doesn't have too much to do with the poem, except that it sort of states something that Frank O'Hara evidently had to say, and so it says something that I have to say too in my own way, not that I have to say it the same way that Frank did. Ted Berrigan 00:04:56 Reads "Frank O’Hara’s Question". Ted Berrigan 00:05:42 This is a poem I wrote in 1962. It's called "Words for Love". It's a bit rhetorical, but it's the best I could do in 1962, and I still like it a lot, albeit I wonder at some of it. "Words for Love". It was written, actually, at a very difficult time in my life, and I guess I felt the need to make some sort of statement. Ted Berrigan 00:06:09 Reads "Words for Love". Ted Berrigan 00:08:07 Reads ["I wake up 11:30, back aching"]. Ted Berrigan 00:09:23 Reads “Personal Poem #7. Ted Berrigan 00:10:23 Reads “Personal Poem”. Audience 00:11:08 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:11:10 Thank you. Charlie Stanton liked that one too. [Audience laughter]. This is the last one of those kind of poems [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:11:21 Reads “Personal Poem #9”. Ted Berrigan 00:12:32 I've always liked that poem. [Laughter]. All of those are written around 1962, 61 and 62. I want to skip up to around 1967. I wrote this poem called "Things to do in New York City". I was leaving New York, and this poem, like many of my poems, was written for a specific occasion. It was for someone's birthday. And the poem, it's just my poem, it's not about the other person's birthday, it's just a present for him on his birthday. Ted Berrigan 00:13:24 Reads "Things to do in New York City". Ted Berrigan 00:14:20 This poem is called "Ten Things I do Every Day," which is...it's true, as a matter of fact, in a way. In a manner of speaking. But it's not true that it's ten things. Alas. But that was just the title, like the ten greatest movies of the year. Ted Berrigan 00:14:40 Reads "Ten Things I do Every Day". Audience 00:15:16 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:15:21 That's what you do in New York. [Audience laughter]. I'll read this poem called "Resolution". Ted Berrigan 00:15:35 Reads "Resolution”. Ted Berrigan 00:15:58 I don't know what I'll do about it if you do, but...something. All those dramatic poems. Ted Berrigan 00:16:06 Reads “Sonnet XXXVII”. Ted Berrigan 00:17:08 I want to move around a little and not do exactly what I said. This is a poem I wrote last summer in London , it's dedicated to the poet Tom Raworth and his wife. They lived in Colchester , which is an hour or two train-ride from London, and I was supposed to go down and see them, and I didn't go. And by way of apologies, I wrote this poem to Tom and to his wife, Val. Ted Berrigan 00:17:33 Reads "Apologies to Val and Tom". Ted Berrigan 00:19:05 I'll read this one for George Bowering's old lady, [audience laughter] Mrs. Angela Bowering. It's called "Things to do on Speed". [Audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:19:19 Reads "Things to do on Speed" [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:20:58 [Laughter] I forgot about that one. Audience 00:21:01 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:21:03 Resumes reading "Things to do on Speed". Ted Berrigan 00:22:21 I wrote that one courtesy of The New York Times . Okay, one more this set. This is called, "Things to do in Providence". [Audience laughter]. Which is, Providence , Rhode Island , or whatever else you can make of it. Ted Berrigan 00:22:50 Reads "Things to do in Providence". Audience 00:26:23 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:26:29 Resumes reading "Things to do in Providence". Audience 00:27:46 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:27:52 [Unintelligible]. Unknown 00:27:55 [Cut or edit made in tape. Unknown amount of time elapsed]. George Bowering 00:27:55 Here he is again, terrible Ted Berrigan. Ted Berrigan 00:28:01 All the poems I'm going to read in this set are from my book, In the Early Morning Rain. The title of this book I got from Gordon Lightfoot , the Canadian folk singer-songwriter, and I didn't know, I made, I decided to use that title before Bobby Dylan's album Self-Portrait came out, so I didn't know that Bobby was going to record this song. I would have used it anyway, I'm sure. But, I mean if Dylan can steal it, I can steal it. And this book is a collection of poems of mine from over the last ten years, and I'm just going to read around in it. I wrote a lot of different kind of poems. I don't very often try for...I mean, I just take my poems where they come. This poem is called "Hello". Ted Berrigan 00:28:51 Reads "Hello" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:29:06 Now I'm going to read two or three poems that are from a section of this book called "Life of a Man". "Life of a Man" is a book of poems in Italian by an Italian poet, a very great Italian poet who died not too long ago called Giuseppe Ungaretti . There's a little story behind these. A lady poet named Barbara Guest once asked my friend Ron Patchett and I, would we translate some of Ungaretti's poems, because Ungaretti was coming to America . And she thought it would be nice if we would translate them as a sort of homage to him. And so I told her, I said, “Barbara, but we don't understand Italian,” and she said, “Oh, I'm sure you can do it, you two are marvelous”. And she said, “Just get a dictionary, and you can look up the words”. So I looked at Ron and he looked at me, and we said, yeah, we can translate 'em, sure, but we don't want to get any dictionaries. So we just translated 'em without any dictionaries. [Audience laughter]. And we never showed them to Ungaretti but we showed them to Barbara Guest and she had the horrors. The first one is called "Matinee". Ted Berrigan 00:30:16 Reads "Matinee" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:26 The next one is called "December" [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:30 Reads "December" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:30:38 And this one is called "The Reply to the Fragile." Ted Berrigan 00:30:42 Reads "The Reply to the Fragile" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:30:53 That one's a little, that's rated X. [Audience laughter]. And this is the last one, it's called “Corporal Pellegrini”. If any of you know Italian, you can understand where all these words came from [audience laughter]. Ted Berrigan 00:31:09 Reads "Corporal Pellegrini" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:31:38 I think Ungaretti would've liked them. [Audience laughter]. He probably would have retranslated them and gotten some new ones. This next work is a translation too and it's a translation I did from French, which I understand some. And so this time I only had to leave certain words. This time I translated a lot of it accurately. But it's called "Life among the woods". And it's a translation of a page from a grammar book, some kind of book written in the French language. After I'd gotten this much done I decided it was over. Anyway, it's called "Life Among the Woods". Ted Berrigan 00:32:20 Reads "Life Among the Woods" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:34:30.58 Pretty interesting family. This is a poem called "In Four Parts." Ted Berrigan 00:34:40.14 Reads "In Four Parts" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:35:22 That was four sentences from the New York Times. They had this secret continuity. [Laughter]. This is a poem called "March 17th, 1970". Ted Berrigan 00:35:35 Reads "March 17th, 1970" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:36:03 And you'd better believe it. Only not right now, right then. I don't know if I can subject you to this poem. I guess I will anyway. This is called "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968". Ted Berrigan 00:36:28 Reads "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968" from In the Early Morning Rain [audience laughter throughout]. Ted Berrigan 00:38:02 You people that are laughing are getting it. Ted Berrigan 00:38:04 Resumes reading "The Ten Greatest Books of the Year, 1968" from In the Early Morning Rain. Audience 00:38:14 Laughter. Ted Berrigan 00:38:17 This is a poem called "Thirty". Ted Berrigan 00:38:18 Reads "Thirty" from In the Early Morning Rain Ted Berrigan 00:38:24 That's for all of you guys that did thirty. This poem is called "Things to do in Anne's Room". Ted Berrigan 00:38:34 Reads "Things to do in Anne's Room" from In the Early Morning Rain Ted Berrigan 00:39:42 This is called "The Great Genius". Ted Berrigan 00:39:45 Reads "The Great Genius" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:39:56 This is called "Anti-War Poem". It's another New Year's poem, actually. Ted Berrigan 00:40:03 Reads "Anti-War Poem" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:40:41 And this poem is called "Tough Brown Coat". Ted Berrigan 00:40:43 Reads "Tough Brown Coat" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:04 This poem is called "Babe Rainbow". Ted Berrigan 00:41:08 Reads "Babe Rainbow" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:25 And this is called "In My Room". Ted Berrigan 00:41:30 Reads "In My Room" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:41:54 This is called "Ann Arbor Elegy". It was written for a girl who was killed in an automobile accident. September 27th, 1969. The funny thing about this poem is it was written before she was killed. And when I looked at it after she was dead, I saw that I didn't have to write an elegy for her, that somehow I'd written one already. Ted Berrigan 00:42:17 Reads "Ann Arbor Elegy - For Franny Winston" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:43:13 And this is a sort of berserk work, which I wrote called "Wake Up," which is about all it says, really. Ted Berrigan 00:43:23 Reads "Wake up" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:44:18 I have another poem which I'd like to read but I won't, but it's a series of aphorisms from the works of Francis Picabia , the French poet and painter. And this friend Jim Carroll and I translated these from French. I'll read you my favourite one, in any case, which Jim Carroll translated. It says, "Spinoza is the one who threw a pass to move Spinoza." I really...in this book I put some poems by some of my friends so I wouldn't have to read all my works. Though when I read I never read theirs, I notice. This poem is called "In Bed". Ted Berrigan 00:44:56 Reads "In Bed" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:45:12 That's an example of saying nothing. [Audience laughter]. This poem is called "Easy Living". It's dedicated to a boy named David Henderson, a poet who was a friend of mine, whom I once took a trip to Pittsburgh with. Had a very nice time. Ted Berrigan 00:45:33 Reads "Easy Living" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:46:25 This is a poem I wrote, it's called "Like Poem". A friend of mine wrote a love poem to this girl, and I thought I should do that too. But I only wanted to write a like poem to her, because I don't want to have any obligations. [Audience laughter]. No, that isn't the reason why, but that's what came out. This is called "Like Poem," it's to Joan Fagan, who's the wife of my friend Larry Fagan , the poet. Ted Berrigan 00:46:50 Reads "Like Poem" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:47:06 This poem is called "Ann Arbor Song". This poem I actually tried to write a poem out of a very corny feeling that I'd had, which nevertheless is very genuine. It starts at a poetry reading in Ann Arbor, but it's really about being in Ann Arbor and realizing I was leaving soon, and thinking about all the things that wouldn't happen to me again, because this trip was going to be over. Even though, I'm--it's not all that sentimental, I mean I knew I might go to Ann Arbor again and all that, it was just that this particular trip was going to be over. I also wrote it with the idea in mind of reading it at a poetry reading too. "Ann Arbor Song". Ted Berrigan 00:47:45 Reads "Ann Arbor Song" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:49:22 I'm going to read two more. First one's called "Peace". Ted Berrigan 00:49:29 Reads "Peace" from In the Early Morning Rain. Ted Berrigan 00:50:37 Alright, and this is the last poem. I hate to end heavy, but there's no place to read this poem but at the end. This poem is called "People Who Died". It's just a list. "People Who Died". Ted Berrigan 00:50:55 Reads "People Who Died" from In the Early Morning Rain. Audience 00:52:48 Applause. Ted Berrigan 00:52:53 Not the most, uh...[laughter]. END 00:52:59
Notes:
Ted Berrigan reads from In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard, 1970), The Sonnets (Grove Press, 1964), Many Happy Returns (Corinth, 1969) and poems later collected in So Going Around Cities (Berkley, 1980) as well as a few unknown poems.

NOTES

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Year-Specific Information: In 1970, Ted Berrigan published In the Early Morning Rain (Cape Goliard Press), and also privately published Scorpion, Eagle & Dove.
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Local Connections: Ted Berrigan’s connection to Sir George Williams University is unclear at the moment, but Berrigan was part of the so called ‘Second Beat’ movement, as well as part of the ‘New York School’ of poetry. In this recording, he dedicates a poem to Angela Bowering, (George Bowering’s wife) so he either had met her before this reading or because of the occasion.
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Original transcript and print catalogue by Rachel Kyne Original print catalogue, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones Additional research and edits by Ali Barillaro
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Berrigan, Ted. In the Early Morning Rain. London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-early-morning-rain/oclc/563054848&referer=brief_results
Citation:
Berrigan, Ted. The Sonnets. New York: Grove Press, 1964.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/sonnets/oclc/934480499&referer=brief_results
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Berrigan, Ted. Many Happy Returns. New York: Corinth Press, 1969.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/many-happy-returns-poems/oclc/564000383&referer=brief_results
Citation:
Berrigan, Ted. So Going Around Cities. Los Angeles: Berkley Press, 1980.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/so-going-around-cities-new-and-selected-poems-1958-1979/oclc/255865532&referer=brief_results
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Horning, Ron. "Berrigan, Ted". The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Ed. Ian Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-twentieth-century-poetry-in-english/oclc/937869379&referer=brief_results
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"Berrigan, Ted (Edmund J.M. Berrigan, Jr.)". The Oxford Companion to American Literature. James D. Hart, ed., rev. Phillip W. Leininger. Oxford University Press 1995.
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/oxford-companion-to-american-literature/oclc/54356940&referer=brief_results
Citation:
Pursglove, Glyn. “Berrigan, Ted”. Literature Online Biography. ProQuest LLC, 2009.

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