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His powerful verse and reflective letters invite contemplation on themes of identity, struggle, and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"only-sing-by-john-berryman-9780374617943","title":"Only Sing","description":"","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46837276803308,"sku":"9780374617943","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9860843482321.jpg?v=1758601706"},{"product_id":"the-selected-letters-of-john-berryman-by-john-berryman-9780674976252","title":"The Selected Letters of John Berryman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman's correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America's major poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Selected Letters of John Berryman\u003c\/em\u003e assembles for the first time the poet's voluminous correspondence. Beginning with a letter to his parents in 1925 and concluding with a letter sent a few weeks before his death in 1972, Berryman tells his story in his own words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded are more than 600 letters to almost 200 people—editors, family members, students, colleagues, and friends. The exchanges reveal the scope of Berryman's ambitions, as well as the challenges of practicing his art within the confines of the publishing industry and contemporary critical expectations. Correspondence with Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and other writers demonstrates Berryman's sustained involvement in the development of literary culture in the postwar United States. We also see Berryman responding in detail to the work of writers such as Carolyn Kizer and William Meredith and encouraging the next generation—Edward Hoagland, Valerie Trueblood, and others. The letters show Berryman to be an energetic and generous interlocutor, but they also make plain his struggles with personal and familial trauma, at every stage of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn introduction by editors Philip Coleman and Calista McRae explains the careful selection of letters and contextualises the materials within Berryman's career. Reinforcing the critical and creative interconnectedness of Berryman's work and personal life, \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Letters\u003c\/em\u003e confirms his place as one of the most original voices of his generation and opens new horizons for appreciating and interpreting his poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433034924268,"sku":"9780674976252","price":80.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674976252.jpg?v=1774765729"},{"product_id":"only-sing-by-john-berryman-9780571400133","title":"Only Sing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe never-before-published poems of one of the great American poets, edited and introduced by Shane McCrae.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly Sing\u003c\/em\u003e is a continuation of John Berryman's vast project \u003cem\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/em\u003e. These 152 never-before-published poems are an expansion of this epic of the American twentieth-century psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the voice and figure of Henry—riddled with desire, self-loathing, and a permanent sense of being at odds with the world—Berryman created, in the words of McCrae, \"a hero for a disenchanted nation\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBerryman never saw these dream songs in print, but he was content that if they ever appeared, it would \"be up to the reader to fit those poems in among the published ones\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496454045932,"sku":"9780571400133","price":12.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571400133-only-sing.jpg?v=1775797374"},{"product_id":"77-dream-songs-by-john-berryman-9780571400225","title":"77 Dream Songs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/em\u003e faithfully replicates the iconic jacket, format, and setting of the first edition, published in 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem then, whatever its wide cast of characters, is essentially about an imaginary character (not the poet, not me) named Henry, a white American in early middle age sometimes in blackface, who has suffered an irreversible loss and talks about himself sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the third, sometimes even in the second; he has a friend, never named, who addresses him as Mr Bones and variants thereof. Resquiescant in pace. —John Berryman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAgainst Henry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e-Mr Bones: there is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(Dream Song 4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll is risk and variety here. This great Pierrot's universe is more tearful and funny than we can easily bear... No voice now or persona sticks in my ear as his. 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