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The Heart is Strange : : new Selected Poems

Berryman, John, 1914-1972. Book - 2014 811.54 Be 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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"A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best 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 Heart Is Strange, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs, marks the centenary of his birth. The Heart Is Strange includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, which show him learning the craft, to his breakthrough masterpiece, "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet," then to his mature verses, which find the poet looking back upon his lovers and youthful passions, and finally, to his late poems, in which he battles with sobriety and an increasingly religious sensibility. The defiant joy and wild genius of Berryman's work has been obscured by his struggles with mental illness and alcohol, his tempestuous relationships with women, and his suicide. This volume, which includes three previously uncollected poems and an insightful introduction by the editor Daniel Swift, celebrates the whole Berryman: tortured poet and teasing father, passionate lover and melancholy scholar. It is a perfect introduction to one of the finest bodies of work yet produced by an American poet"-- Provided by publisher.
"): A new selection of John Berryman's work, in honor of the poet's centenary"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xxxv, 179 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374221089
0374221081

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Swift, Daniel, 1977-

SUBJECTS
American poetry.