The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
Near the top of the list of books everyone should own, especially if they’re a fucking poet, is: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan edited by Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan This beautiful 749 page monster contains Berrigan’s published and unpublished poetry written between 1962 and his death on July 4th, 1983 (including his rediculously influencial masterpiece known as The Sonnets). I'm not going to ramble on at this point about how much I love this glorious bastard, or how much I respect what he managed to accomplish with the unique way he experimented with language, or the almost super hero-like powers he wielded whe...Read more