Reminiscences of Ted Berrigan : oral history, 1980.

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Reminiscences of Ted Berrigan : oral history, 1980.

Family background, influence of parents; childhood and education in Providence, Rhode Island; Army experience in Korea; University of Tulsa in Oklahoma; friendship with Ron Padgett and other young poets and painters; writing poetry in New York; position of the poet in America; collaboration process between poets; work with Ron Padgett; sonnet form, modern sonnets and other poems.

Transcript: 74 leaves.Tape: 2 cassettes.

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Berrigan, Ted

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Born in 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island, poet Ted Berrigan attended the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He was a second-generation member of the New York school of poets, and along with Ron Padgett, published a small literary magazine, C, during 1963 and 1964. He taught at Yale University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the University of Michigan, and Essex University in England, and also served as poet-in-residence at the City College of New York. Among his published volumes of poetry are The Son...

Padgett, Ron

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Savage, Thomas

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