Red Wagon RARE First Edition Paperback book of poetry by Ted Berrigan 1976

Yellow Press Chicago
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1976
First Edition
English
73 pages

Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934.
Berrigan moved to New York in the early 1960s, where he edited and published C Magazine and ran “C” Press Books, wrote art criticism, and collaborated with writers and artists Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and Anselm Hollo. Berrigan was a central figure in the second generation of the New York School of poets, which included Hollo, Padgett, Anne Waldman, and Jim Carroll. He was the author of more than twenty books, including A Certain Slant of Sunlight (O Books, 1988); Red Wagon (Yellow Press, 1976); Bean Spasms (with Padgett and Brainard) (Kulchur Press, 1967); and The Sonnets (“C” Press, 1964).

He taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Essex in England, elsewhere. In 1979, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.