Dear Sandy, Hello Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan

Berrigan, Ted

ISBN 10: 156689249X / ISBN 13: 9781566892490

Published by Coffee House Press, 2010

About this Item

8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 368 pages.

Seller Inventory # 337196

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Sandy, Hello Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156689249X
• ISBN 13: 9781566892490
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Ted and Sandy Berrigan’s honeymoon ended when her father, a well-connected doctor, forced Sandy into a mental hospital, had Ted run out of town by the sheriff, and hired private detectives to investigate his friends. These intimate, irresistible letters, written over the course of their three-month separation, read like a passionate, epistolary novel—full of longing, intrigue, and gossip. They also offer serious advice for developing readers and writers, bring the thriving cultural scene in mid-twentieth-century New York to life, and serve as a day-by-day chronicle of Ted Berrigan’s developing voice.

In addition to the letters, this collection contains never-before-published reproductions from A Book of Poetry for Sandy,featuring Berrigan’s cutouts, drawings, photographs of fellow poets and artists, and excerpts from poems that eventually became The Sonnets.

About the Author

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), a central figure in the second generation of New York School poets, was the author of more than twenty books including The Sonnets, So Going Around Cities, and A Certain Slant of Sunlight. The editor and publisher of C Magazine, he also wrote art criticism and became an influential mentor to an entire generation of writers.