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by: Ted Berrigan
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780140589276
ISBN: 0140589279
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: October 01, 2000
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date: October 03, 2000
Sales Rank: 437958
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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After many years out of print, Ted Berrigan's highly regarded sonnets are now available in a new edition that includes seven previously unpublished works. Reflecting the new American sensibilities of the 1960s as well as timeless poetic themes, The Sonnets are both eclectic and classical--they are verbal riddles worth contemplating.
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Rating:  - gorgeous lyricism amidst playful experiments
Ted Berrigan's "The Sonnets" ultimately deals with the complexities of intimately placing seemingly disparate Things--objects from different times and climes--into one singular plane. His ars poetica deals with the deep implications of the poet's decisions. "Whatever is going to happen is already happening," Berrigan writes in Sonnet L.
This line reverberates in my ears and reminds me of these lines, written by my friend Joseph Griffin, and was published in Spring 2004 in "SCRY! ... Read More
Rating: - Finally the complete Sonnets
This legendary book of New York school poetry finally appears complete. In previous editions there were mysteriously missing poems. Alice Notley, who was married to Berrigan, provides an illuminating introduction.
Rating: - "Poetry Requires Misunderstanding"-Berrigan
Although many critics and readers have crowned contemporaries John Ashbery or Frank O'Hara the champions of abstract expressionism in poetry, Berrigan's work is often dismissed because on the surface it is overtly stylistic. And while Ashbery speaks in riddles, Berrigan seems to know the worlds that surrounds each phrase and it's arrangement, (or lack thereof). his sonnets are an essential read for anyone interested in the richness, abandonment, and just plain wackiness that can be brought to life ... Read More
Rating: - "Poetry Requires Misunderstanding"-Berrigan
Although many critics and readers have crowned contemporaries John Ashbery or Frank O'Hara the champions of abstract expressionism in poetry, Berrigan's work is often dismissed because on the surface it is overtly stylistic. And while Ashbery speaks in riddles, Berrigan seems to know the worlds that surrounds each phrase and it's arrangement, (or lack thereof). his sonnets are an essential read for anyone interested in the richness, abandonment, and just plain wackiness that can be brought to life ... Read More
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