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Main subject categories: • John Berryman ‒ Letters • John Berryman ‒ Biography A 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. The Selected Letters of John Berryman 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. Included 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 enc

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Author

John Berryman (editor); Philip Coleman (editor); Calista McRae (editor); Martha B. Mayou (editor)

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674250321

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Poetry, Literary Fiction