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008			130311s1989 nyu 001 0 eng
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020			_a0374126194
050	0	0	_aPS3503.E744 _bA17 1989
082	0	0	_a811 BER
100	1		_aBerryman, John _d, 1914-1972
240	1	0	_aPoems
245	1	0	_aCollected poems, 1937-1971 _c/ John Berryman ; edited and introduced by Charles Thornbury.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar Straus Giroux _c, c1989.
300			_alxvii, 347 p. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aIncludes indexes.
520			_aMaking careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury brings together all seven collections of short poems and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Though one can trace the influences of other poets--Yeats, Auden, Crane--before Berryman's voice emerges, ultimately the subject of his poems is unabashedly the personal. Tortured if brilliant, Berryman draws on his many selves to fashion dialogs between old and new ways of being. Central to the mid-century's intellectual and emotional life, he records the outcome of human experience as the opposite of what we either hope for or expect in shifts of language from dialect to sophisticated rhetoric that underscore the poetry's agony. Not included are Berryman's own published prefaces and notes, copy texts, variants, The Dream Songs , and posthumously published works.
650		4	_aPoetry, American
700	1		_aThornbury, Charles
942			_cMO
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