This volume brings together all of Berryman’s poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America’s most distinguished poets.
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For readers unattuned to what Thornbury here calls "Berryman's strange and dissonant music," this gathering of verse may unlock the poems' inner recesses. In his extensive introductory essay, the editor, who teaches at St. John's University in Minnesota, explores Berryman's poetry of disrupted syntax, of continual deaths and rebirths, of self-deceptions and ultimate self-understanding. He also provides a biographical context for the sonnets, satires and confessionals, taking into account the poet's peripatetic boyhood, his suppressed rage at his father's suicide, his metamorphoses as Cambridge don, alcoholic philanderer, itinerant professor-poet and suicide at age 57. Berry displayed his febrile inventiveness as early as Sonnets to Chris (1947), a cycle included here that is by turns romantically tender, cynical, manic, elegant and slangy; this edition brings together all of Berryman's published volumes of poetry except for The Dream Songs.
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Making careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury brings together all seven collections of short poems and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Though one can trace the influences of other poets--Yeats, Auden, Crane--before Berryman's voice emerges, ultimately the subject of his poems is unabashedly the personal. Tortured if brilliant, Berryman draws on his many selves to fashion dialogs between old and new ways of being. Central to the mid-century's intellectual and emotional life, he records the outcome of human experience as the opposite of what we either hope for or expect in shifts of language from dialect to sophisticated rhetoric that underscore the poetry's agony. Not included are Berryman's own published prefaces and notes, copy texts, variants, The Dream Songs , and posthumously published works.
- Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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All the poems but the /Dream Songs/, which are collected separately (also from Amazon). The included /Sonnets/ are from the original ms carbons, unemended, but with the five extra of the 1964 first edition.
Easy typeface and size, stanzas properly divided. Adequate bio for all but Berryman scholars. You like Berryman in whole or part, or you don't, and this is where you'll find out. If you do, a must-have (also the /Dream Songs/).
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- Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: Drawings by Ben Shahn by Berryman on 4 pages
- Berryman's Sonnets by John Berryman in Front Matter, page 294, and page 305
- The Freedom of the Poet by John Berryman in Front Matter
- T. S. Eliot: 2 (Modern masters) by Stephen Spender in Front Matter
- The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (20th Century Classics) by Frederick Rolfe on page 147
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- Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic by Thomas Travisano on 4 pages
- Prophets & Professors: Essays on the Lives and Works of Modern Poets by Bruce Bawer on page 151, and page 162
- Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy (Reading Women Writing) by Melissa F. Zeiger in Back Matter
- The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jake Adam York in Back Matter
- The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo) by Pattiann Rogers in Back Matter
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