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1979 Received an NEA grant. Yo-Yo s with Money, a transcription of a
live sportscast recorded collaboratively by Ted and Harris Schiff at a
baseball game at Yankee Stadium, published by United Artists Books.
1980 Taught spring and summer terms at the Naropa Institute in
Boulder, Colorado. So Going Around Cities: Selected Poems 1958
1979 published by Blue Wind Press. Taught at the Stevens Institute
of Technology (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Literature) in
Hoboken, New Jersey, during the fall of 1980, at the behest of new
friend Ed Foster. Ted s mother, Peggy Berrigan, became ill with lung
cancer.
1981 In a Blue River published by Little Light Books. In May conducted
influential and notorious four-day residency at 80 Langton Street, San
Francisco, which included a reading of new work, a confrontational
evening with the Language Poets, a panel discussion of Ted s work,
and a full-length reading of The Sonnets. Throughout the year wrote
prose commentaries and reviews for the Poetry Project Newsletter
(edited by Greg Masters).
1982 The Morning Line published by Am Here Books/Immediate Editions.
The Sonnets reissued by United Artists with six additional sonnets.
Became Writer in Residence at CCNY in the spring. Peggy Berrigan
died in July. Throughout this year worked on A Certain Slant of
Sunlight.
1983 Writing last poems. Becoming increasingly ill but continuing to
function as much as possible. Conducted lengthy but unsuccessful
interview with James Schuyler. Died on July 4 of complications
from cirrhosis of the liver, which was most probably caused by the
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hepatitis C virus. Buried at Calverton National Cemetery on Long
Island, a military cemetery.
1988 A Certain Slant of Sunlight published by O Books.
1991 Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan, edited by
Stephen Ratcliffe and Leslie Scalapino, published by Avenue B and O
Books.
1994 Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan, edited by Aram Saroyan, published by
Penguin.
1997 On the Level Everyday: Selected Talks on Poetry and the Art of Living,
edited by Joel Lewis, published by Talisman House Publishers.
1998 Great Stories of the Chair published by Situations.
2000 The Sonnets reissued by Penguin with six additional sonnets.
2005 The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, published by University of
California Press.
2007 River under the House, poems translated by Ted Berrigan and Gordon
Brotherston, published by Rumor Books.
208 chronology
Notes
Alice Notley
These notes are largely concerned with aspects of chronology and dating of the
poems. For other information, the reader is referred to The Collected Poems of
Ted Berrigan (University of California Press, 2005) and The Sonnets (New York:
Penguin, 2000).
People of the Futur e
The poems in this volume are in a general chronological order, to the extent that
the chronology is known, grouped by year and place of composition, with an
occasional known violation of chronology (usually not very great) to make for
a better read from poem to poem. The placement of this poem is the one really
egregious violation, since the poem was written in the late 1970s and is the pref-
ace poem to the book Nothing for You (New York: United Artists, 1977). The
poem is a response to the second stanza of Ron Padgett s poem Tone Arm : You
people of the future/ How I hate you/ You are alive and I m not/ I don t care
whether you read my poetry or not. We, the editors, simply thought it would
make a terrific lead-in to the book.
Doubts
Like String of Pearls (see below) this poem was written in New York in the
early 1960s prior to The Sonnets and contains lines and phrases subsequently used
in The Sonnets. Also, like String of Pearls, it wasn t published until it appeared
in Nothing for You in 1977.
Str ing of Pear ls
See note for Doubts.
Wor ds for Love
Words for Love and For You were written in New York in the early 1960s
prior to The Sonnets, but first published in Many Happy Returns (New York:
Corinth Books, 1969).
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For You
See note for Words for Love.
Personal Poem #2
Written in New York prior to The Sonnets but included in The Sonnets as LXXVI,
this poem was also published, with certain changes, under the title Personal
Poem #2 in Many Happy Returns. In manuscript it s dated 15 November 1961.
Personal Poem #9
Written in New York prior to The Sonnets but included in The Sonnets as
XXXVI (after Frank O Hara), this poem was also published, with changes,
under the title Personal Poem #9 in Many Happy Returns. In manuscript it s
dated 28 July 62.
From The Sonnets
The Sonnets were written in New York between November 1962 and July 1963, but
some whole poems, and many lines and phrases, were written earlier. Ted s trans-
lation of Rimbaud s Le Bateau Ivre, used throughout, also dates from before the
sequence s inception. However, the conception of the sequence, its methodology,
and by extension its philosophy and scale, seem to have to come to Ted in one
evening, that of November 20, 1962. That evening, as he recorded in a journal, he
composed the first five of the sonnets (we have selected the first three of those) us-
ing lines from a previously written group of poems. He says he wrote by ear, and
automatically (see journal excerpts in Shiny, 9/10, 1999). There seem to be two
relevant time periods in the actual composition of the sequence: the November
December 1962 period and a period during the spring and early summer of 1963.
Unless otherwise noted the following sonnets were first published in the C
Press edition (New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1964), and then, unchanged, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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1979 Received an NEA grant. Yo-Yo s with Money, a transcription of a
live sportscast recorded collaboratively by Ted and Harris Schiff at a
baseball game at Yankee Stadium, published by United Artists Books.
1980 Taught spring and summer terms at the Naropa Institute in
Boulder, Colorado. So Going Around Cities: Selected Poems 1958
1979 published by Blue Wind Press. Taught at the Stevens Institute
of Technology (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Literature) in
Hoboken, New Jersey, during the fall of 1980, at the behest of new
friend Ed Foster. Ted s mother, Peggy Berrigan, became ill with lung
cancer.
1981 In a Blue River published by Little Light Books. In May conducted
influential and notorious four-day residency at 80 Langton Street, San
Francisco, which included a reading of new work, a confrontational
evening with the Language Poets, a panel discussion of Ted s work,
and a full-length reading of The Sonnets. Throughout the year wrote
prose commentaries and reviews for the Poetry Project Newsletter
(edited by Greg Masters).
1982 The Morning Line published by Am Here Books/Immediate Editions.
The Sonnets reissued by United Artists with six additional sonnets.
Became Writer in Residence at CCNY in the spring. Peggy Berrigan
died in July. Throughout this year worked on A Certain Slant of
Sunlight.
1983 Writing last poems. Becoming increasingly ill but continuing to
function as much as possible. Conducted lengthy but unsuccessful
interview with James Schuyler. Died on July 4 of complications
from cirrhosis of the liver, which was most probably caused by the
chronology 207
hepatitis C virus. Buried at Calverton National Cemetery on Long
Island, a military cemetery.
1988 A Certain Slant of Sunlight published by O Books.
1991 Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan, edited by
Stephen Ratcliffe and Leslie Scalapino, published by Avenue B and O
Books.
1994 Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan, edited by Aram Saroyan, published by
Penguin.
1997 On the Level Everyday: Selected Talks on Poetry and the Art of Living,
edited by Joel Lewis, published by Talisman House Publishers.
1998 Great Stories of the Chair published by Situations.
2000 The Sonnets reissued by Penguin with six additional sonnets.
2005 The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, published by University of
California Press.
2007 River under the House, poems translated by Ted Berrigan and Gordon
Brotherston, published by Rumor Books.
208 chronology
Notes
Alice Notley
These notes are largely concerned with aspects of chronology and dating of the
poems. For other information, the reader is referred to The Collected Poems of
Ted Berrigan (University of California Press, 2005) and The Sonnets (New York:
Penguin, 2000).
People of the Futur e
The poems in this volume are in a general chronological order, to the extent that
the chronology is known, grouped by year and place of composition, with an
occasional known violation of chronology (usually not very great) to make for
a better read from poem to poem. The placement of this poem is the one really
egregious violation, since the poem was written in the late 1970s and is the pref-
ace poem to the book Nothing for You (New York: United Artists, 1977). The
poem is a response to the second stanza of Ron Padgett s poem Tone Arm : You
people of the future/ How I hate you/ You are alive and I m not/ I don t care
whether you read my poetry or not. We, the editors, simply thought it would
make a terrific lead-in to the book.
Doubts
Like String of Pearls (see below) this poem was written in New York in the
early 1960s prior to The Sonnets and contains lines and phrases subsequently used
in The Sonnets. Also, like String of Pearls, it wasn t published until it appeared
in Nothing for You in 1977.
Str ing of Pear ls
See note for Doubts.
Wor ds for Love
Words for Love and For You were written in New York in the early 1960s
prior to The Sonnets, but first published in Many Happy Returns (New York:
Corinth Books, 1969).
209
For You
See note for Words for Love.
Personal Poem #2
Written in New York prior to The Sonnets but included in The Sonnets as LXXVI,
this poem was also published, with certain changes, under the title Personal
Poem #2 in Many Happy Returns. In manuscript it s dated 15 November 1961.
Personal Poem #9
Written in New York prior to The Sonnets but included in The Sonnets as
XXXVI (after Frank O Hara), this poem was also published, with changes,
under the title Personal Poem #9 in Many Happy Returns. In manuscript it s
dated 28 July 62.
From The Sonnets
The Sonnets were written in New York between November 1962 and July 1963, but
some whole poems, and many lines and phrases, were written earlier. Ted s trans-
lation of Rimbaud s Le Bateau Ivre, used throughout, also dates from before the
sequence s inception. However, the conception of the sequence, its methodology,
and by extension its philosophy and scale, seem to have to come to Ted in one
evening, that of November 20, 1962. That evening, as he recorded in a journal, he
composed the first five of the sonnets (we have selected the first three of those) us-
ing lines from a previously written group of poems. He says he wrote by ear, and
automatically (see journal excerpts in Shiny, 9/10, 1999). There seem to be two
relevant time periods in the actual composition of the sequence: the November
December 1962 period and a period during the spring and early summer of 1963.
Unless otherwise noted the following sonnets were first published in the C
Press edition (New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1964), and then, unchanged, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]