FSG Classics: The Dream Songs : Poems (Paperback)

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Berryman occupies a special place in my brain. He is quite simply one of the most startlingly original poets of the 20th century, and the fact that he isn't taught right up front in literature classes alongside T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath makes me terribly sad.

from RachelWeaver

Berryman occupies a special place in my brain. He is quite simply one of the most startlingly original poets of the 20th century, and the fact that he isn't taught right up front in literature classes alongside T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath makes me terribly sad.

from tungsten_peerts

I have lived with these poems for years, and survived. The thing that, for me, separates Berryman from the other "confessional" poets is his sense of humor. It is a black humor, certainly, a skull coughing and chuckling while chain smoking cigarettes, but it is a sense of humor nonetheless. Dark,...

from Arctic-Stranger

This should come with some kind of warning on it. DANGER: These poems are not very accessible, yet habit forming. If you are looking for meaning, you will best find it, as you read these, in your own heart and mind. There is just enough structure in these poems to give your mind wings to fly. Enjoy.

from tungsten_peerts

I have lived with these poems for years, and survived. The thing that, for me, separates Berryman from the other "confessional" poets is his sense of humor. It is a black humor, certainly, a skull coughing and chuckling while chain smoking cigarettes, but it is a sense of humor nonetheless. Dark,...