Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)

A selective list of online literary criticism for American poet Ted Berrigan, favoring signed scholarly articles and books, peer-reviewed sources, sources supervised by editors, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites.


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introduction & literary criticism

"Ted Berrigan." An extended, introductory article on Ted Berrigan's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation

"Ted Berrigan." An introduction to Berrigan. Academy of American Poets.

Phillips, Rodney. On the New York School poets from the Literary Encyclopedia, 20 December 2004

Rifkin, Libbie. Publisher's blurb for Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2000). "Making the controversial claim that anti-Establishment poets were at least as "careerist" as their mainstream peers, Libbie Rifkin shows how the nature of these poets' ambition actually defined postwar avant-garde identity." A review from Jacket Magazine, 18 (Aug. 2002) by Linda Russo. Another review (first page only) from Contemporary Literature, 43, 3 (Autumn 2002), by Susan Vanderborg

Ted Berrigan page at the Electronic Poetry Center contains some of Berrigan's original writing and collaborations


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