Get the Money!

• Galleys are available upon request
• Co-op is available
• Pursuing reviews/interviews with the editors: American Poetry Review, American Poet, Bookforum, Booklist, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Colorlines, on Democracy Now, Guardian, KQED, LA Review of Books, LA Times, Library Journal, n+1, The Nation, NPR, NY Review of Books, NY Times, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Project Newsletter, Publisher's Weekly, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Shelf Awareness, SF Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post, among other spots.
• Pursuing excerpts in major publications including The New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Lit Hub, Paris Review, and elsewhere. A very important text in this book, about Berrigan's own press and mimeo magazine, C, is unpublished and we will pursue placing an excerpt in a prominent place. 
• Promotion via City Lights’s popular social media accounts. 
• Editors are residents of New York and Paris, so events anchored in those places will be pursued, especially New York and the Poetry Project.
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements. Will pitch to regional media, including newspapers and radio stations.
• Blurbs already from Peter Gizzi, Anne Waldman, Andrei Codrescu, and Cedar Sigo. 

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan.

“Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself.”—John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

“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. Get the Money! 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his journals from the ’60s, depicting his early poetic discoveries and bohemian activities in New York; the previously unpublished “Some Notes About ‘C,’” an account of his mimeo magazine that serves as a de facto memoir of the early days of the second-generation New York School; a moving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. Get the Money! 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.

Praise for Get the Money!:

"Get the Money! captures 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."—Anne Waldman, author of Trickster Feminism

"Ted was my mentor, my teacher of America and its poetry,...