77 Dream Songs

by John Berryman

Book Overview

A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds

John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell-"a maddening work of genius."

As Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction, Berryman had discovered "a looser...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374534527
• ISBN13: 9780374534523
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"