COLLECTED POEMS OF BERRYMAN - Softcover

Berryman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374522812 ISBN 13: 9780374522810

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

Synopsis

This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972).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.

About this title

About the Author:

John Berryman was born in Oklahoma in 1914. The author of several volumes of poetry, of which The Dream Songs is considered his masterwork, he died, a suicide, in 1972.

Review:

1 September 1939
American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad
Amos
Ancestor
The Animal Trainer (1)
Antitheses
The Apparition
At Chinese Checkers
Away
Back
The Ball Poem
The Black Book, Sels.
The Black Book, Sels. (ii)
The Black Book, Sels. (iii)
Boston Common
Cadenza On Garnette
Canto Amor
The Captains Song
Caravan
Ceremony And Vision
Certainty Before Lunch
Cloud And Flame
Communist
Compline
Conversation
Crisis
The Curse
Damn You, Jim D., You Woke Me Up
Damned
The Dangerous Year
Dante's Tomb
Death Ballad
Defensio In Extremis
Desire Is A World By Night
Desires Of Men And Women
Despair
The Disciple
The Dispossessed
Down & Back
Drugs Alcohol Little Sister
Drunks
Ecce Homo
Eleven Addresses To The Lord
The Enemies Of The Angels
Epilogue
Facts & Issues
Fare Well
Farewell To Miles
First Night At Sea
The Form
Freshman Blues
Friendless
Gislebertus' Eve
The Handshake, The Entrance
Have A Genuine American Horror & Mist On The Rocks
He Resigns
Heaven
The Hell Poem
Hello
Henry By Night
Henry's Understanding
Her & It
The Heroes
The Home Ballad
'how Do You Do, Dr Berryman, Sir?'
A Huddle Of Need
'i Know'
Images Of Elspeth
In & Out
In Memoriam (1914-1953)
Interstitial Office
King David Dances
Lauds
Letter To His Brother
The Lighting
Lines To Mr Frost
London
The Long Home
Matins
Meditation
Meeting
Message
Minnesota Thanksgiving
Monkhood
The Moon And The Night And The Men
My Special Fate
The Mysteries
Narcissus Moving
Navajo Setting The Record Straight
New Year's Eve
Night And The City
Nineteen Thirty-eight
No
Nones
Not To Live
Note To Wang Wei
Nowhere
Of Suicide
Old Man Goes South Again Alone
Olympus
On The London Train
The Other Cambridge
Overseas Prayer
The Pacifist's Song
Parting As Descent
A Poem For Bhain
The Poet's Final Instructions
A Point Of Age
The Possessed
A Prayer After All
The Prayer Of The Middle-aged Man
Prime
A Professor's Song
Purgatory
Recovery
Relations
River Rouge, 1932
Rock-study With Wanderer
Sanctuary
Scholars At The Orchid Pavilion
Scots Poem
The Search
Sext
Shirley & Auden
Somber Prayer
Song
The Song Of The Bridegroom
Song Of The Man Forsaken And Obsessed
The Song Of The Tortured Girl
The Song Of The Young Hawaiian
The Spinning Heart
The Statue
Surviving Love
A Sympathy, A Welcome
Tampa Soup
Tea
Terce
Thanksgiving: Detroit
They Have
To A Woman
Transit
The Traveller
Travelling South
The Trial
Two Organs
Unknowable? Perhaps Not Altogether
A Usual Prayer
Venice, 182-
Vespers
Views Of Myself
Washington In Love
Whether There Is Sorrow In The Demons
White Feather
Winter Landscape
A Winter-piece To A Friend Away
World's Fair
World-telegram
Young Woman's Song
Your Birthday In Wisconsin You Are 140
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0374522812
• ISBN 13: 9780374522810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420