John Berryman: Collected Poems

John Berryman: Collected Poems
Title John Berryman: Collected Poems PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 441
Release 2014-10-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466879580

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This volume brings together all of John Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). John Berryman: Collected Poems 1937-1971 is a definitive edition of one of America's most distinguished poets.

The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs
Title The Dream Songs PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 469
Release 2014-10-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466879637

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The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.

Delusions, Etc. of John Berryman

Delusions, Etc. of John Berryman
Title Delusions, Etc. of John Berryman PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 82
Release 1972
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0374137986

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Poetry by John Berryman including the poems under "Opus Dei" and "Scherzo."

The Heart Is Strange

The Heart Is Strange
Title The Heart Is Strange PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 209
Release 2016-04-05
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0374535787

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"A new selection of John Berryman's work, in honor of the poet's centenary"--

Berryman's Sonnets

Berryman's Sonnets
Title Berryman's Sonnets PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 145
Release 2014-10-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0374534543

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A Love affair in the poet's youth is depicted in the style of Petrarchism.

Conversations with John Berryman

Conversations with John Berryman
Title Conversations with John Berryman PDF eBook
Author Eric Hoffman
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 212
Release 2021-03-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1496831470

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The poetry of John Berryman (1914–1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century, and their impact on the psyche and spirit, both individual and collective. He was just as likely to find inspiration in his local newspaper as he was from the poetry of Hopkins or Milton. In fact, in contrast to the popular perception of Berryman drunkenly composing strange, dreamlike, abstract, esoteric poems, Berryman was intensely aware of craft. His best work routinely utilizes a variety of rhetorical styles, shifting effortlessly from the lyric to the prosaic. For Berryman, poetry was nothing less than a vocation, a mission, and a way of life. Though he desired fame, he acknowledged its relative unimportance when he stated that the “important thing is that your work is something no one else can do.” As a result, Berryman very rarely granted interviews—“I teach and I write,” he explained, “I’m not copy”—yet when he did the results were always captivating. Collected in Conversations with John Berryman are all of Berryman’s major interviews, personality pieces, profiles, and local interest items, where interviewers attempt to unravel him, as both Berryman and his interlocutors struggle to find value in poetry in a fallen world.

The Freedom of the Poet

The Freedom of the Poet
Title The Freedom of the Poet PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 405
Release 1976
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0374158487

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