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The Heart Is Strange: Revised Edition

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Description for The Heart Is Strange: Revised Edition Paperback. John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. The Heart Is Strange, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs, marked the centenary of his birth. This book includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 454.
John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. The hardcover publication of The Heart Is Strange, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs, marked the centenary of his birth. The Heart Is Strange includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
259g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780374535780
SKU
V9780374535780
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About John Berryman
John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs in 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, a continuation of the Dream Songs, in 1969. Daniel Swift is the author of Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War and ... Read more

Reviews for The Heart Is Strange: Revised Edition
Berryman is arguably the most irreverent and inventive . . . of the confessional American poets that emerged in the late 1950s and early '60s . . . [In The Heart Is Strange] you see Berryman's voice and tics develop
his playful use of grammar and nonsense words, his contrasts of comedy and despair, his intimate style.
Andrew Travers, The ... Read more

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