The Heart Is Strange

by John Berryman

Book Overview

John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. The paperback edition of The Heart Is Strange has been updated to include a selection from the Dream Songs alongside poems from across his career. The Heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535787
• ISBN13: 9780374535780
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"