Nonfiction. Literary History & Biography. Edited by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett. Introduction by Ron Padgett. Preface by Sandy Berrigan. 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.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Reviews and Other Links
Ron Padgett interview in Publishers Weekly
John Latta @ Isola di Rifiuti
Richard Hell @ Bookforum
Patrick James Dunagan @ Galatea Resurrects
Donald Brown @ The Quarterly Conversation
Cliff Fyman @ Rain Taxi