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The Dream Songs: Poems
John Berryman
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Description for The Dream Songs: Poems
Paperback. John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. This title collects 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. Editor(s): Swift, Daniel. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 566.
John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems 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 ... Read more
John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780374534554
SKU
V9780374534554
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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. Michael Hofmann is an acclaimed poet, translator, and critic. He has published six books of ... Read more
Reviews for The Dream Songs: Poems
I'd be shucking my obligation not to ... make a renewed case for The Dream Songs.' It's a book that collects Berryman's original 77 dream songs and adds the further 308 he later wrote. This new edition includes a fond, funny and brilliant introduction by the poet and translator Michael Hofmann. Here is Berryman's masterpiece, one of those books of ... Read more