The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (84 page)

Aram Saroyan edited
Selected Poems
by Ted Berrigan, for the Penguin Poets Series (New York: Penguin Books, 1994). The only one of Ted’s books of poetry (until now) that Ted had no living or posthumous hand in, it covers gracefully and classically, within the limited space of a traditional “selected poems,” all of Ted’s major publications through
A Certain Slant of Sunlight
. It contains no previously unpublished work. There is an introduction by me.

Where no dates appear, the editor has not been able to locate the information
.

Donald Allen (1912–2004)
Editor, anthologist, publisher; Ted’s editor at Grove Press for
The Sonnets
.

Bruce Andrews (1948– )
Poet, critic; associated with Language Poetry movement.

John Ashbery (1927– )
New York School poet, art critic, prose writer.

Erje Ayden
Turkish-born American novelist, memoirist.

David Bearden
Poet, friend of Ted’s in Tulsa.

Bill Berkson (1939– )
Poet, art critic.

Anselm Berrigan (1972– )
Son of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley.

David Berrigan (“Jacques-Louis David”) (1963– )
Son of Ted and Sandy Berrigan.

Edmund Berrigan (1974– )
Son of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley.

Kate Berrigan (1965–1987)
Daughter of Ted and Sandy Berrigan.

Sandy Berrigan (1942– )
Formerly Sandra Alper. Ted’s first wife. Poet.

Paul Blackburn (1926–1971)
Poet, translator, archivist, founder of Le Metro reading series.

Joe Brainard (1942–1994)
Painter, cover artist and illustrator, collagist, assemblagist, writer. Collaborator with Ted on visual / literary works.

Jim Brodey (1942–1993)
Poet, music critic.

Gordon Brotherston (1939– )
British translator, author, poet, Latin American scholar.

Michael Brownstein (1943– )
Poet, novelist.

Rudy Burckhardt (1914–1999)
Swiss-born American filmmaker, photographer, painter.

Reed Bye (1948– )
Poet, American Buddhist.

Steve Carey (1945–1989)
Poet, novelist. Brother of Tom Carey.

Tom Carey (1951– )
Poet, novelist, musician, Franciscan (Episcopalian) brother and priest.

Jim Carroll (1950– )
Poet, novelist, musician, songwriter.

Joe Ceravolo (1934–1988)
Poet.

Tom Clark (1941– )
Poet, novelist, biographer, sports writer, editor.

Martin Cochran
Poet, friend of Ted’s in Tulsa.

Andrei Codrescu (1946– )
Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, radio commentator.

Jack Collom (1931– )
Poet, teacher, essayist, environmentalist.

Clark Coolidge (1939– )
Poet, musician, editor.

Lee Crabtree (1942–1973)
Musician, member of the rock band The Fugs.

Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Poet, prose writer, teacher, associated with the Black Mountain poets.

Peggy DeCoursey (1944– )
Close friend of Ted’s in New York in the later period. Communications worker in advertising.

Samuel R. “Chip” Delany (1942– )
Science fiction writer.

Edwin Denby (1903–1983)
Poet, dance critic, essayist.

Donna Dennis (1942– )
Sculptor and painter.

Ed Dorn (1929–1999)
Poet, fiction writer, teacher.

Kenward Elmslie (1929– )
Poet, performer, librettist.

Joan Fagin (1948– )
Dress designer; former wife of Larry Fagin.

Larry Fagin (1937– )
Poet, editor, publisher.

Harry Fainlight (d.1982)
British poet.

Marion Farrier (1951– )
Friend of Ted’s at the University of Essex, England, and in New York. Publications manager. Wife of Steve Carey.

Ed Foster (1944– )
Poet, critic, editor, publisher, teacher.

Jane Freilicher (1924– )
Painter. Friend of New York School poets.

Ed Friedman (1950– )
Poet, playwright, performer, arts administrator.

Carol Gallup (Carol Clifford) (1942– )
A close friend of Ted’s in New York. Former wife of Dick Gallup. Poet.

Dick Gallup (Richard Gallup) (1941– )
Poet, playwright.

Merrill Gilfillan (1945– )
Poet, essayist.

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
Poet, prose writer, political activist, musician, teacher.

John Giorno (1935– )
Poet, community activist.

Lorenz Gude (1942– )
With his wife, Ellen Gude, published
“C” (A Journal of Poetry)
and “C” Books in the 60s. He also took early photographs of the Tulsa group and of Joe Brainard’s work.

Ellen Gude (1942– )
Wife of Lorenz Gude and co-publisher of
“C” (A Journal of Poetry)
in the 60s. She provided the essential funding for
“C,”
having a good job in an employment agency.

Barry Hall
Printer, publisher, filmmaker.

Jacky Hall
First wife of Barry Hall.

Donald Hall (1928– )
Poet, essayist, anthologist, teacher.

David Henderson (ca. 1942– )
Poet, lyricist, biographer, a founder of the Umbra workshop.

Anselm Hollo (1934– )
Finnish and American poet, translator (from Finnish, German, Swedish, Russian, and French), person of letters.

Bob Holman (1948– )
Poet, playwright, director, actor, community animator.

Helena Hughes (1951– )
Friend of Ted’s at the University of Essex and in New York. Poet. Caretaker, for some years, for James Schuyler.

Dick Jerome
Artist, upstairs neighbor of Ted’s in New York during the late 70s and early 80s.

Henry (Hank) Kanabus (1949– )
Poet from Chicago, former student of Ed Dorn and Ted at Northeastern Illinois University.

Ada Katz (1928– )
Wife of Alex Katz. She figures in many of his paintings.

Alex Katz (1927– )
New York painter and visual artist (set designer, cover artist, printmaker, collaborator with poets, etc.).

Anne Kepler
Marge Kepler’s cousin, a flutist who came to New York around the same time as Ted, Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup, Pat Mitchell, and Ron Padgett. Her death in 1965 is recorded both in “Tambourine Life” and in “People Who Died.”

Marge Kepler (Margie)
Friend, girlfriend, of Ted’s in Tulsa, who, according to his journals, changed his life dramatically.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
Beat novelist and poet. Interviewed by Ted for the
Paris Review
in 1968.

Kenneth Koch (Jay Kenneth Koch) (1925–2002)
New York School poet, playwright, fiction and prose writer, teacher.

Rochelle Kraut (1952– )
Poet, artist, singer. Married to Bob Rosenthal.

Rosina Kühn (1940– )
Swiss painter.

Tuli Kupferberg (1923– )
Poet, musician, songwriter, author, member of The Fugs.

Joanne Kyger (1934– )
Poet, teacher.

Michael Lally (1945– )
Poet, actor.

Lewis MacAdams (1944– )
Poet, environmental activist.

Bernadette Mayer (1945– )
Experimental poet and prose writer, editor, teacher of poets.

Bernie Mitchell (1945–2003)
Sister of Pat Padgett.

Christine Murphy (Chris)
The muselike “Chris” of
The Sonnets
, one of Ted’s students in 1958–1959 when he taught eighth grade at Madalene School in Tulsa. Not the “Chris” in the poem “Living with Chris,” who is Christina Gallup, the (then) baby daughter of Dick and Carol Gallup.

Eileen Myles (1949– )
Poet and fiction writer.

Jayne Nodland (1943– )
Photographer, artist, musician.

Alice Notley (1945– )
Poet, editor, essayist; Ted’s second wife.

Frank O’Hara (Francis Russell O’Hara) (1926–1966)
New York School poet, art critic, Museum of Modern Art (New York) administrator and curator. Ted’s most avowed poetry hero.

Douglas Oliver (1937–2000)
British poet, novelist, editor, linguistic researcher.

Peter Orlovsky (1933– )
Poet, companion of Allen Ginsberg.

Lauren Owen (1941– )
Friend of Ted’s in Tulsa and New York.

Pat Padgett (Patricia Mitchell) (1937– )
Lifelong friend of Ted’s in Tulsa and New York. Wife of Ron Padgett.

Ron Padgett (1942– )
Poet, prose writer, memoirist, biographer, translator, editor. Frequent collaborator with Ted on poems and prose works. Co-author with Ted of the book
Bean Spasms
.

Tom Pickard (1946– )
British poet and prose writer.

Fairfield Porter (1907–1975)
Painter and art critic.

Tony Powers
Friend of Ted’s in Tulsa.

Tom Raworth (1938– )
British poet.

Val Raworth (1936– )
Wife of Tom Raworth.

Bob Rosenthal (1950– )
Poet, prose writer, secretary to Allen Ginsberg.

Ed Sanders (1939– )
Poet, musician, journalist, novelist. Member of The Fugs.

Aram Saroyan (1943– )
Poet, prose writer.

Harris Schiff (1944– )
Poet. Collaborator with Ted on writing projects.

Linda Schjeldahl (Linda O’Brien) (1942– )
Editor, writer; at one time married to Peter Schjeldahl.

Peter Schjeldahl (1942– )
Poet, art critic.

Elio Schneeman (1961–1997)
Poet, son of George and Katie Schneeman.

George Schneeman (1934– )
Painter, collagist, ceramicist, cover artist, illustrator, frequent collaborator with Ted on visual and literary projects.

Katie Schneeman (1938– )
Close friend of Ted’s in New York. Married to George Schneeman; mother of Elio, Emilio, and Paul.

James Schuyler (1923–1991)
New York School poet, prose writer, art critic.

Johnny Stanton (1943– )
Fiction writer.

Lorenzo Thomas (1944– )
Panamanian-born African American poet, critic, essayist, teacher.

Sotere Torregian (1941– )
Poet.

Tony Towle (1939– )
Poet.

Tom Veitch (1941– )
Novelist, poet, comic book writer.

Anne Waldman (1945– )
Poet, editor, anthologist, teacher, performer, New York and Boulder poetry community figure.

Larry Walker
Fiction writer, friend of Ted’s in Tulsa.

Lewis Warsh (1944– )
Poet, novelist, memoirist, editor, publisher, teacher.

Philip Whalen (1923–2002)
Poet, novelist, Zen abbot.

Megan Williams
Upstairs neighbor of Ted’s in New York in the late 70s and early 80s. Dress designer.

Jeff Wright (1951– )
Poet, editor, publisher.

The text of
The Sonnets
is reproduced with the permission of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).
Memorial Day
is reproduced with the permission of its co-author, Anne Waldman.
A Certain Slant of Sunlight
is reproduced with the permission of Leslie Scalapino and O Books (Oakland, Calif.: O Books, 1988). All other poems are used with the permission of Alice Notley, executor of the estate of Ted Berrigan. The photograph of Ted Berrigan is reproduced with the permission of the photographer, Lorenz Gude. The cover art by George Schneeman is reproduced with the permission of the artist.

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