Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan

by Anne Waldman (Editor)

Berrigan's longtime friend Anne Waldman put together this moving tribute to the important poet. It includes stories, essays, poems, paintings, and photographs by a group of gifted writers and artists.

Genres: Poetry

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Anne Waldman was part of the late Sixties poetry scene in the East Village. She ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work.

She became a Buddhist, worshipping with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who would also become Allen Ginsberg's guru. She and Ginsberg worked together to create a poetry school, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Anne Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger is particularly impressive (did you get all that?).

She was featured in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'

Reviews

[Ed Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

After Ted passed away I read this memoir, letter, poem book dedicated to
a kind & fine gentleman Ted Berrigan. The editors left out many of
my contempories Eleanor Nauen,Simon Pettet, Eileen Myles, Joel Lewis who
knew Ted in 1979-83 before he died. I saw him 3 nights
before he died and he was in the bathroom reading poems,talking
to Alice Notley his wife, it was a hot summer in NYC that year 1983.

[Josh Simpson · Rating 5 out of 5]

the Captain America of US poetry

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

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