Reminiscences of Ted Berrigan : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Poet; full name is Edmund Joseph Michael Berrigan, Jr.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects

• Berrigan, Ted.
• Interviews.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• Oral histories.
• Padgett, Ron.
• Poetry.
• Poets--Interviews.
• Savage, Thomas, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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