Sonnets

Originally published in 1964 <b>The Sonnets</b> by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition with an introduction by Alice Notley includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets Berrigan's poems involve friendship and love triangles but while the former happen chronologically Berrigan's happen in the moment with the story buried beneath a surface of names repetitions and fragmented experience. Reflecting the new American sensibilities of the 1960's as well as timeless poetic themes <b>The Sonnets</b> is both eclectic and classical -- the poems are monumental riddles worth contemplating.