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Title

The heart is strange : new selected poems / John Berryman ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift.

Author

Berryman, John, 1914-1972.

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Supplementary Content

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Additional Authors

Swift, Daniel, 1977-

Description

xxxv, 179 pages; 26 cm

Summary

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

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• POETRY / American / General

Note

• Includes indexes.

Call Number

JFE 14-7104

ISBN

• 9780374221089
• 0374221081

LCCN

2014004039

OCLC

2014004039

Author

Berryman, John, 1914-1972.

Title

The heart is strange : new selected poems / John Berryman ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Added Author

Swift, Daniel, 1977-

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7104