{"product_id":"get-the-money-9780872868953","title":"Get the Money!","description":"\u003cb\u003eA monumental event in American poetry, \u003ci\u003eGet the Money! \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself.”—\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Get the Money!” was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. \u003ci\u003eGet the Money!\u003c\/i\u003e documents Berrigan’s innovative poetics and techniques, as well as the creative milieu of poets—centered around New York’s Poetry Project—for whom he served as both nurturer and catalyst. Highlights include his journals from the ’60s, depicting his early poetic discoveries and bohemian activities in New York; the previously unpublished “Some Notes About ‘C,’” an account of his mimeo magazine that serves as a de facto memoir of the early days of the second-generation New York School; a moving and prescient obituary, “Frank O’Hara Dead at 40”; book “reviews” consisting of poems entirely collaged from lines in the book; art reviews of friends and collaborators like Joe Brainard, George Schneeman, and Jane Freilicher; and his notorious “Interviews” with John Cage and John Ashbery, both of which were completely fabricated. \u003ci\u003eGet the Money!\u003c\/i\u003e provides a view into the development of Berrigan’s aesthetics in real time, as he captures the heady excitement of the era and champions the poets and artists he loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eGet the Money!\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGet the Money! \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the esprit de corps of the particular community close to Ted’s door on St Mark’s Place. This book of prose with its nimble lift, tinged with intimacy, wit, and perception is a welcome addition to the second generation NY School canon. Ted often went hungry but could make a few dollars with the short reviews. One walks the rounds with Ted on his 'beat': Love, poetry, gossip, art. Telling it like it is. Strolling into artist studios, galleries, poets’ modest digs, and into our hearts.\"—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTrickster Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ted was my mentor, my teacher of America and its poetry, and I often quote him. He was an oral genius and I have regretted not writing down everything he said to me. Now I have this collection of journals, critical writing on art, aphorisms, and correspondence. It makes for a grand portrait of the poet who charmed my whole generation. Ted Berrigan is alive in this book in ways that no one could guess.\"—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrei Codrescu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eToo Late for Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It’s always a significant occasion when we have an edition of a poets prose. \u003ci\u003eGet the Money!\u003c\/i\u003e offers us an important window into Ted Berrigan’s laboratory, his no bullshit attitude, his class awareness, his gorgeous sentimentality, and his disarming anarchic humor. This book is what anyone could hope it would be: funny, tender, brilliant, intimate, original, alive.\"—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Gizzi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNow It's Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ted Berrigan's voice has always been instantly familiar to me so \u003ci\u003eGet the Money! \u003c\/i\u003efeels less like a reading experience and more like taking a long walk with my favorite poet, then buying him a drink someplace and letting him talk. The pieces collected here offer a superhuman range of formal invention. … Berrigan's prose is often loose and lyrical, hovering somewhere between blogging, letter writing, texting, and transcription. His deadpan bravura and sudden dismissiveness are consistently hilarious. Decades after his death Berrigan remains way ahead of his time. I think Robert Creeley said it best, 'The Bell rings \/ Ted is ready'.\"—\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCedar Sigo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAll This Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ted Berrigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960259481718,"sku":"9780872868953","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_dc11b8bb-7f06-4efc-a43b-06a55b70490e.jpg?v=1767857372","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/get-the-money-9780872868953","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}