{"product_id":"77-dream-songs-9780374534523","title":"77 Dream Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Berryman was hardly unknown when he published \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A \"spooky\" collection in the words of Robert Lowell-\"a maddening work of genius.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction, Berryman had discovered \"a looser style that mixed high and low dictions with a strange syntax.\" Berryman had also discovered his most enduring alter ego, a paranoid, passionate, depressed, drunk, irrepressible antihero named Henry or, sometimes, Mr. Bones: \"We touch at certain points,\" Berryman claimed, of Henry, \"But I am an actual human being.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry may not be real, but he comes alive on the page. And while the most famous of the Dream Songs begins, \"Life, friends, is boring,\" these poems never are. Henry lusts: seeing a woman \"Filling her compact \u0026amp; delicious body \/ with chicken páprika\" he can barely restrain himself: \"only the fact of her husband \u0026amp; four other people \/ kept me from springing on her.\" Henry despairs: \"All the world like a woolen lover \/ once did seem on Henry's side. \/ Then came a departure.\" Henry, afraid of his own violent urges, consoles himself: \"Nobody is ever missing.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, but Berryman's formal and emotional innovations-he cracks the language open, creates a new idiom in which to express eternal feelings-remain as alive and immediate today as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Berryman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/04\/2015 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Berryman\u003c\/b\u003e (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs \u003c\/i\u003ein 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for \u003ci\u003eHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest\u003c\/i\u003e in 1969. \u003cb\u003eHenri Cole \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Fukuoka, Japan, and raised in Virginia. He has published eight collections of poetry and received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Award. His most recent collection is \u003ci\u003eTouch \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2011). He is poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic \u003c\/i\u003eand lives in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"John Berryman \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47629421019293,"sku":"9780374534523","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d298254b-9d07-458b-a1d3-2194f04605f1.jpg?v=1770188794","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/77-dream-songs-9780374534523","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}