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**A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century**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 Heart Is Strange*, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of *Berryman's Sonnets*, *77 Dream Songs*, and the complete *Dream Songs*, marks the centenary of his birth. *The Heart Is Strange *includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, which show him learning the craft, to his breakthrough masterpiece, "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet," then to his mature verses, which find the poet looking back upon his lovers and youthful passions, and finally, to his late poems, in which he battles with sobriety and an increasingly religious sensibility. The defiant joy and wild genius of Berryman's work has been obscured by his struggles with mental illness and alcohol, his tempestuous relationships with women, and his suicide. This volume

Author

Berryman, John; Swift, Daniel; Swift, Daniel

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374713591