A selection from Berrigan’s most popular and influential book, The Sonnets. Despite, The Sonnets current status as a mid century classic, it was not until the 1967 republication by Grove Press that the boo gained some notoriety, mostly in part to Berrigan’s own growing popularity in “New York’s Lowe...
I like to beat people up
absence of passion, principles, love. She murmurs
What just popped into my eye was a fiend’s umbrella
and if you should come and pinch me now
as I go out for coffee
. . . as I was saying winter of 18 lumps
Days produce life locations to banish 7 up
Nomads, my babies, where are you? Life’s
My dream which is gunfire in my poem
Orange cavities of dreams stir inside “The Poems”
Whatever is going to happen is already happening
Some people prefer “the interior monologue”
I like to beat people up
The Sonnets: L was written by Ted Berrigan.
Ted Berrigan released The Sonnets: L on Wed Jan 01 1964.