Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs by Berryman, John
Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs by Berryman, John

Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs

The never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman. John Berryman's Dream Songs are...
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Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs by Berryman, John

Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs

$41.98
Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs by Berryman, John

Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs

$41.98
Author: John Berryman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman.

John Berryman's Dream Songs are arguably 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 being at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed.

The collected Dream Songs consists of 385 discrete poems, combining those from 77 Dream Songs, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and those from His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. But for Berryman, Henry lived on. Over the years, the poet wrote more than a hundred additional songs that didn't make it into the various published editions of the songs. As elucidated by Shane McCrae in the introduction to this edition, Berryman hoped that readers might slot these unpublished poems in among the rest.

Only Sing, which includes both finished poems and drafts, isn't merely the scraps left on a cutting room floor; it is a continuation of the epic cycle, an additional set of poems that crack language open, an extension of Berryman's brilliant account of madness shot through with searing insight.

Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 12/09/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780374617943


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2025
Booklist 12/01/2025

About the Author

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 in 1969.

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize; and his recent collection, Cain Named the Animal. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
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