Dear Sandy, Hello

250 galleys for bookseller, librarian, and media outreach Promotion through Ted Berrigan’s Facebook fan page Tribute events in New York Endorsers (potential): Patti Smith, Russell Banks, Maureen McLane Promotional interview between Sandy Berrigan and Maureen Owen Academic and library marketing and conference promotion Excerpts: American Poetry Review Advertising: American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Bookforum, Poetry Project Newsletter Co-op available

Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world’s cultural capital.Ted and Sandy Berrigan’s honeymoon ended when her father, a well-connected doctor, forced Sandy into a mental hospital, had Ted run out of town by the sheriff, and hired private detectives to investigate his friends. These intimate, irresistible letters, written over the course of their three-month separation, read like a passionate, epistolary novel—full of longing, intrigue, and gossip. They also offer serious advice for developing readers and writers, bring the thriving cultural scene in mid-twentieth-century New York to life, and serve as a day-by-day chronicle of Ted Berrigan’s developing voice. In addition to the letters, this collection contains never-before-published reproductions from A Book of Poetry for Sandy,featuring Berrigan’s cutouts, drawings, photographs of fellow poets and artists, and excerpts from poems that eventually became The Sonnets.